Volume 2 — INDEX (continued 2)

Paving-stones used as missiles to capture the Gaspé, i. 9.

Pawnee, Federal frigate, iv. 99, 163.

Peabody, Federal transport, iv. 100.

Peacock, American corvette, meets the brig-sloop Epervier, iii. 66;

captures the sloop, 67–71;

cruises, 78;

attached to Decatur’s fleet, 271;

captures prizes and the cruiser Nautilus, 285.

Peacock, British brig, encounters the American sloop Hornet, ii. 181;

the battle, 183;

her captain killed, ib.;

sinks, 184;

good treatment of the officers and men by the Americans, 187;

comparison of the ships, 190.

Peake, Captain William, attacks the Hornet, ii. 181;

is killed, 183;

proud of his ship, 190.

Pearce, Lieutenant John, iv. 370.

Pearl, British frigate, captures the Lexington, i. 68;

the latter escapes, ib.

Pearson, Captain Richard, encounters the Bonhomme Richard, i. 243, 245;

surrenders, 259;

anecdote of, 262–264;

conduct of, 274;

treated as if he had won a victory, 275.

Pechell, Captain Samuel John, in charge of expedition sent against Craney’s Island, ii. 398.

Peerless, Federal transport, lost near Cape Hatteras, iv. 167.

Peiho River, attack on Chinese forts in the, iii. 382.

Pelican, British frigate, goes in search of the American sloop Argus, ii. 362;

attacks the Argus, 363, 364;

captures the sloop, 364–367;

takes her into Plymouth, 371.

Pembina, Federal gun-boat, iv. 163.

Pendergrast, American Flag Officer G. J., his proclamation, iv. 40.

Pendergrast, Lieutenant Austin, takes command of the Congress, iv. 208;

surrenders to Lieutenant Parker of the Beaufort, ib.;

assists in transferring the wounded, 209;

escapes by swimming, ib.

Penguin, British brig-sloop, is beaten by the Hornet, iii. 273–281.

Penguin, Federal gun-boat, at Port Royal, iv. 171.

Pensacola, United States screw sloop, iv. 16;

Captain Henry W. Morris, 314.

Pensacola Navy Yard surrendered to Confederates, iv. 112.

Perkins, Lieutenant-commander George H., iv. 386.

Perry, Federal brig, captures the Savannah, iv. 89.

Perry, Christopher Raymond, gallant conduct of, i. 296.

Perry, Commodore Matthew Calbraith, brother of Oliver H. Perry, sent against the Mexican port of Frontera, iii. 410;

captures the Mexican fleet, ib.;

captures Tabasco, 413;

conducts the operations during the siege of Vera Cruz, 424;

his early services, 435;

a Japanese poem dedicated to him, 437;

his work in opening the ports of Japan, 439;

appointed to the Japan mission, 443;

anchors off Uraga, ib.;

reception by the Japanese, 444–447;

difficulty in opening negotiations, 449, 450;

the Japanese Governor accompanied by three reporters, 455;

permission from the Emperor to receive the President’s message, ib.;

the Emperor grants all that is asked, 457–463;

amusing features of the expedition, 463;

assigned to the Fulton 2d, iv. 11;

his opinion of her, ib.

Perry, Oliver Hazard, in command of a fleet of gun-boats at Newport, R. I., in 1812, ii. 280;

ordered to join Commodore Chauncey, 282;

inspects the navy yard at Black Rock, 283;

finds five ships being constructed at Erie, Pa., ib.;

hastens to Pittsburg for cannon-balls, 285;

returns to Erie, 286;

starts for Buffalo in a row-boat, ib.;

compels the British to abandon the Niagara River, 287;

stricken with fever through overwork, 288;

ordered to co-operate with General Harrison, ib.;

his appeal for men, 289;

starts on an expedition with an inadequate force, ib.;

chooses the Lawrence as his flagship, 290;

gets his fleet in deep water, 291;

cruises on Lake Erie, 292;

is joined by officers and men from the Constitution, ib.;

sails up the lake to join General Harrison, 292;

arrives at Put-in-Bay, 293;

confers with General Harrison, 294;

sickness, ib.;

his fleet anchors in Put-in-Bay, ib.;

sketch of Perry’s fleet, 295;

sketch of Barclay’s fleet, 296;

comparison of the commanders, 300;

his thoughtfulness for his men, 305;

the battle of Lake Erie commences, 309;

closes in on the British, 311;

loads and fires his own guns, 315;

his flagship a wreck, 317;

shifts his flag to the Niagara, 321;

the decisive movement, 322;

the British surrender, 324;

“We have met the enemy and they are ours!”, 325;

receives the swords of the British officers on the Lawrence, 328;

his letter to the Secretary of the Navy, 332;

results of his victory, 333;

promoted from rank of master-commandant to captain, 334;

his praise of Lieutenant Elliott, 336;

value of ships captured in the battle, 337;

his squadron at Erie, ib.;

Washington Irving’s opinion of the victory, 338;

his duel with Captain Heath, iii. 317;

detailed to cruise in South American waters, 327;

sails up the Orinoco, ib.;

demands compensation for American vessels, 329;

contracts yellow fever, ib.;

dies while entering the Port of Spain, Trinidad Island, 330;

buried at Newport, R. I., ib.

Pert, American schooner, ii. 270.

Perthshire, British merchantman, captured off Mobile, iv. 43;

released by the Niagara, ib.;

claims compensation, 44.

Petrel, American schooner, in attack on Alvarado, iii. 410.

Petrel, Confederate privateer, iv. 93;

chases the St. Lawrence, which fires into and sinks her, 94.

Phelps, Captain S. S., appointed to command of the Conestoga, iv. 251;

convoys General Grant down the Mississippi, ib.;

captures the Confederate steamer Eastport, 267;

takes command of her, ib.;

before Fort Pillow, 290;

Lieutenant-commander of the Eastport, 369.

Philadelphia, American gondola, i. 90;

on Lake Champlain, 100.

Philadelphia, American frigate, sent to Tripoli, i. 335;

sunk on a reef, 343;

raised by the Tripolitans, 344;

boarded and fired by Decatur, 349–358.

Phœbe, British frigate, attempts to attack the Essex, iii. 25, 26;

is scared off, ib.;

with the Cherub makes another attack on the Essex, 30–43.

Pico Andres, Mexican Governor of Los Angeles, iii. 397;

breaks his parole, ib.

Picton, British war-schooner, captured by the Constitution, iii. 242.

Pike, Zebulon M., explorer, at storming of Toronto, ii. 341;

killed by the explosion of a magazine, 342.

Pinola, Federal screw gun-boat, iv. 316.

Piracy discoveries at Cape Cruz, South America, iii. 335.

Pirate caves with the bones of dead in them, iii. 324, 325.

Piratical assaults on Yankee traders, iii. 366.

Pitcairn, Major, at Lexington, i. 14.

Pitchforks used by haymakers in their attack on the Margaretta, i. 21.

Pittsburg, armor-plated Federal gun-boat, built by Eads, iv. 245;

Captain Egbert Thompson commands, 290;

before Vicksburg, 363, 370.

Pittsburg Landing, fight at, iv. 284.

Plantagenet, British liner, assists in the attack on the General Armstrong, iii. 188, 194, 196–198.

Planter, Confederate transport, turned over to the Federals by Robert Small, a negro slave, iv. 501, 502.

Plattsburg Bay, operations of Macdonough in, iii. 145, 150.

“Playing ball with the red coats,” ii. 268.

Plunger, Holland submarine boat, iv. 545.

Po Adam, Malay chief, rescues Captain Endicott, iii. 370;

aids Captain Downes in his attack on Quallah Battoo, 374.

Pocahontas, Federal frigate, iv. 163.

Poictiers, British frigate, recaptures the Frolic from the Wasp, ii. 118.

Policy, British whaler, captured by Porter, iii. 8.

Polk, Confederate gun-boat, iv. 127.

Polly, American privateer, attacks the English sloop-of-war Indian, ii. 242.

Pomone, British frigate, assists in the capture of the President, iii. 222.

Pope, Captain John, his report on the retreat of the Federal fleet, iv. 137;

captured New Madrid, 276;

fortifies the river, ib.;

shuts Confederates in, ib.

Porcupine, American schooner, in battle of Lake Erie, ii. 295.

Porpoise, American schooner, in fleet sent to South America to punish pirates, iii. 331.

Port Hudson, Farragut runs his squadron past, iv. 357;

the Albatross, Monongahela, and Kineo successfully pass the batteries of, 358;

the Mississippi and the Lancaster fired and sunk below, ib.

Porter, Midshipman David, assists Lieutenant Rodgers in charge of captured French frigate Insurgent, i. 323;

sent to Tripoli, 335;

sent from the Enterprise to take possession of the Tripoli, 335, 336;

lands and fires gun-boats in the port of Tripoli, 340;

surrenders to the Tripolitans, 343;

his experience and training, ii. 33, 34;

captures the corvette Alert, 42;

crew of, plan a rescue, 44;

receives an insulting challenge from Sir James Yeo, 348;

starts on a second cruise in the Essex, iii. 1;

cruises off Port Praya, 2;

captures the British brig Nocton, ib.;

reaches Fernando de Noronha, 3;

Bainbridge directs him to pose as Sir James Yeo, ib.;

captures the schooner Elizabeth, 4;

left free to choose his own course, ib.;

rounds Cape Horn, ib.;

dysentery among his crew, 5, 6;

encounters fearful storms, 6;

a panic on board, ib.;

sails for Valparaiso, 7;

overhauls the Nereyda, throws her guns and arms overboard, ib.;

disguises his ship, 8;

captures the British whalers Barclay, Montezuma, Georgiana, and Policy, ib.;

captures the whalers Atlantic and Greenwich, ib.;

forms a squadron, 10;

captures the whaler Charlton, the ships Seringapatam and New Zealander, 14;

captures the Sir Andrew Hammond, 16;

refits his ship at Nukahiva, ib.;

the prisoners plan to capture the Yankee force, 21;

an incipient mutiny, ib.;

he sails from Nukahiva, 23;

waits for the British frigate, the Phœbe, 24;

gives a reception to the officials of the city, 25;

the Phœbe arrives and attempts to attack him, 25–28;

he challenges the Phœbe, 29;

a heavy squall interferes, 31;

the Essex disabled and the enemy gives chase, ib.;

Porter retires into neutral waters, 32;

Porter’s running gear disabled, 36;

he surrenders his ship, 43;

is sent to New York on the Essex, Junior, 49;

escapes in a fog, ib.;

aids the defence of Baltimore, 53;

services, death, and burial, ib.;

operating against the pirates of South America, iii. 333;

endeavors to get support of the local governments, ib.;

compels a Porto Rico alcalde to show respect to American officers, 336;

court-martialed, ib.;

is suspended and resigns his commission, ib.

Porter, Commander David D., his idea of attacking New Orleans, iv. 313;

finds New Orleans fishermen good spies, ib.;

arranges the expedition, ib.;

commands the mortar fleet up the Mississippi River, 325;

placed in charge of the Mississippi squadron, 349;

tin-clads added to his squadron, ib.;

tries to get in behind Vicksburg, 358;

is unsuccessful, 363;

attacks the fortifications of Grand Gulf, 367;

sent with General Banks’s expedition to Shreveport, La., 369;

arrives at Alexandria, 370;

captures the Abby Bradford from the Sumter, 413;

disagreement with General Butler at Fort Fisher, 508.

Porter, Captain John, in command of the Greyhound in South America, iii. 333.

Porter, Confederate Navy Constructor J. L., assists in making the working drawings for the Merrimac, iv. 185.

Porter, Captain William D., iv. 249;

in Commodore Foote’s fleet, 255;

severely scalded, 265.

Portland, Maine, atrocities of the British at, i. 24–26, 32;

influence of atrocities, 196.

Port Royal, Federal gun-boat, iv. 389;

capture of, 162–182.

Portsmouth, American frigate, in the bombardment of Chinese forts, iii. 380–382.

Potomac, American frigate, attacks and punishes the Malays at Quallah Battoo, iii. 373–375.

Powhatan, Federal frigate, captures the Abby Bradford from the Sumter, iv. 413.

Preble, American sloop. See Rising Sun.

Preble, Captain Edward, i. 26;

in command of the Constitution, 346;

attacks the city of Tripoli, 359;

Congress gives him a gold medal, 378.

Preble, Lieutenant George H., iv. 315.

President, American frigate, built, i. 312;

sent to Tripoli, 335;

encounters and is fired on by the corvette Little Belt, ii. 7;

Captain John Rodgers sent to look for the Guerrière, 8;

chases the British frigate Belvidera, 29–32;

the frigate escapes, 32;

mentioned, 121;

chases the Nymphe, 151;

chases the Curlew, 358;

a lieutenant of the President boards the Highflyer, ib.;

special efforts ordered to capture the President, 359;

termed “The Waggon” by the British, 360;

Decatur transferred to, iii. 212;

attacked by the British fleet, 216;

surrenders, 222;

is carried to the Bermudas, 226;

her dimensions, 227.

Press-gang riots in Boston, i. 395, 397.

Press-gangs, raised in England, i. 156;

methods of the, 386, 387;

number of Americans enslaved by the, ii. 2–4.

Prevost, Sir George, attacks Sackett’s Harbor, ii. 345;

mistakes trees for troops, 346;

in command of “Wellington’s Invincibles” at Plattsburg, iii. 147;

defeated, 169, 170;

dies of chagrin, 183.

Price, Confederate gun-boat, rams the Cincinnati, iv. 293;

disabled by the Carondelet, 294.

Prince de Neufchâtel, American privateer, ii. 253;

attacked by the British frigate Endymion, iii. 202–207.

Prince of Orange, British brig, captured by the Surprise, i. 124, 125.

Prince Regent, British ship, iii. 129.

Princeton, Ericsson’s first screw steamship, iv. 12;

Captain Stockton assigned to her, 14;

the “Peacemaker,” one of her guns, bursts, ib.;

her success pronounced, ib.

Pring, Captain, in the battle of Lake Champlain, iii. 166;

surrenders, ib.

Prisoners, American, in England, bad treatment of, i. 122.

Prisons, British, iii. 288–304.

Privateer and a letter of marque, difference between, iii. 242.

Privateers, commissioned by Congress, i. 33;

authorized by General Court of Massachusetts, 196;

by Connecticut and Rhode Island, 197;

by General Washington, ib.;

work accomplished by them up to 1777, 217;

another account of them, 220, 221;

captured prisoners from privateers on prison-ship Jersey, 221–226;

result of licensing of, iii. 324.

Privateers, American, capture sixteen English cruisers during the Revolutionary War, i. 302.

Privateers in the War of 1812, only a few made money, ii. 233–258;

two hundred and fifty commissioned during the war, 240.

Proctor, General, his incursion into Ohio prevented by the result of the battle of Lake Erie, ii. 333.

Protector, American gun-ship, blows up the British privateer Admiral Duff, i. 207;

beats off the frigate Thames, ib.

Providence, brig of first American Navy, i. 39, 57;

commanded by Captain John P. Rathburne, descends on New Providence, Bahamas, 186.

Quaker City, armed merchantman, attacked by the Confederate ironclad Palmetto State, iv. 474.

Quallah Battoo, Malays of, attacked by the American frigate Potomac, iii. 373, 374;

bombarded by the Columbia, 376.

Queen Charlotte, British ship, in battle of Lake Erie, ii. 296;

sunk in Little Bay, 337.

Queen of France, American ship, i. 280, 281.

Queen of the West, Federal ram, at Fort Pillow, iv. 301;

sinks the Lowell, ib.;

rammed by the Beauregard, ib.;

sent to attack Port Hudson, 351;

abandoned by the Federals, 352.

Racehorse, British brig, captured by the Andrea Doria, i. 69.

Radford, Captain William, absent from duty, iv. 201.

Rainbow, British gun-ship, captures the Hancock, i. 185.

Rais Hammida, the terror of the Mediterranean, iii. 344, 346;

killed, 347.

Raleigh, American man-of-war, sent to France, i. 130;

attacks the Druid, 131;

loads her supplies, 132;

returns to America, 133;

captured, 194.

Raleigh, Confederate gun-boat, assists in taking crew off the Congress, iv. 208.

Randolph, American frigate, i. 160;

blown up, 162.

Ransom paid to the Dey of Algiers, i. 309, 310.

Ransom, Lieutenant George M., iv. 315.

Rathbone, Captain John P., i. 186;

releases American prisoners, ib.;

commands the Queen of France, 281.

Rattlesnake, American ship, captured by the Leander, ii. 387.

Ravenel, Dr. St. Julien, aids in fitting out torpedo boats, iv. 497.

Razee, a line-of-battle ship, ii. 403, iii. 56.

Read, Lieutenant Charles W., appointed to command the Clarence, iv. 424;

captures the Tacony and burns the Clarence, ib.;

captures the Archer and cuts out the Caleb Cushing, ib.;

captured, ib.

Red River, Texas, blockaded, iv. 358.

Red River dam, iv. 372–374.

Reefer, American schooner, iii. 410.

Reid, Commodore George C., bombards and burns Malay towns, iii. 375–379.

Reid, Captain Samuel C., sails from New York Harbor, iii. 187;

arrives at Fayal, ib.;

the brig Carnation, accompanied by the Plantagenet and the frigate Rota; enter the harbor, 188;

attacked in a neutral port, 189;

heavy loss of the enemy, ib.;

the population gather to watch the issue, 190;

the Carnation attacks with a fleet of boats, ib.;

a fierce hand-to-hand fight, 192;

he scuttles and abandons his ship, 200;

returns home, 201;

is enthusiastically received and honored, ib.;

his pedigree, ib.;

originated the arrangement of the stars and stripes in the American flag, ib.;

dies in New York City, ib.

Reilly, Lieutenant James, iii. 81.

Reindeer, British brig-sloop, captured by the Wasp (No. 3), iii. 88;

armament of, 91;

the wounded of, sent to Plymouth, ib.

Renshaw, Master-commandant James, on the Enterprise after the Boxer-Enterprise battle, ii. 386.

Reprisal, American brig, captures a number of prizes, i. 70;

fight with the Shark, 71;

Franklin sails for France on the, 114;

close call of, 118;

ordered to leave France, 119;

founders, ib.

Resolute, Federal steamer, at Acquia Creek, iv. 81.

Resolution, British brig, captured by the Hornet, ii. 181, 191.

Retaliation, American gun-ship, formerly the French ship Croyable, i. 316, 330, 400.

Revenge, American sloop, i. 89.

Revenge, American man-of-war, i. 126;

takes numerous prizes, ib.

Rhind, Commander A. C., iv. 480;

Commander of the Louisiana, 510.

Rhode Island, first naval fight in waters of, i. 2.

Richmond, United States screw sloop, iv. 16;

Captain Thornton A. Jenkins, 386.

Richmond, Va., railroad communication cut off from, iv. 267.

Ricot, Captain, in Paul Jones’s fleet, i. 232.

Rifled cannon introduced into the American Navy, iv. 20, 21.

Rising Sun, American sloop, renamed the Preble, iii. 136, 138, 140.

“River Defence Squadron,” Confederate, iv. 297.

Roanoke, United States screw frigate, launched, iv. 15.

Roanoke Island, expedition to, iv. 109.

Robertson, Lieutenant John Downie, in the battle of Lake Champlain, iii. 165.

Robinson, Captain Isaiah, i. 69;

captures the Racehorse, ib.

Rodgers, Rear-admiral John, with Midshipman David Porter and others, sail the captured frigate Insurgent with 173 French on her, i. 323;

brings the ship safely into St. Kitts, ib.;

ready to move his fleet in one hour, ii. 28;

starts to intercept a big fleet of merchantmen, 29;

chases the Belvidera, ib.;

fires the first shot of the War of 1812, 30;

his leg broken, 31;

the frigate escapes him, 32;

cruises and captures merchantmen and recaptures an American ship, ib.;

challenged by the Guerrière, 72;

sails from Boston, 121;

chases the British frigate Nymphe, 151;

chases the Curlew, 358;

falls in with the British schooner Highflyer, and secures her book of private signals and instructions, ib.;

value and usefulness of the book, 359;

ordered to report to General Frémont, iv. 241;

buys and fits out merchant-vessels, ib.;

relieved of his command, 250;

appointed head of Board of Naval Officers, 527.

Rodgers, Captain John, iv. 480.

Rodgers, Commander George W., killed on the Catskill, iv. 480, 491.

Rodgers, Captain R. C. P., at Port Royal, iv. 163.

Rodman, Captain United States Ordnance Department, his experience with heavy guns, iv. 18, 20.

Rodolph, Federal wrecking steamer, sunk by a torpedo, iv. 406.

Roebuck, British frigate, captures the Confederacy, i. 298.

Roosevelt, Clinton, proposed steel-plated ship, iv. 9.

Rooster, a sporting, iii. 155.

Rose, British ship, captured by Lieutenant Downes, iii. 10;

sent to St. Helena as a cartel, 12.

Rota, British frigate, in the attack on the General Armstrong, iii. 188–200.

Rowan, Captain Stephen C., iv. 99;

destroys the Confederate fleet at Roanoke Island, 110.

Royal Savage, American schooner, i. 89.

Royal Yacht, Confederate privateer, blockaded by the Santee in Galveston, iv. 138.

Russell, Lieutenant John H., iv. 314.

Russell, Lord, correspondence about the Trent affair, iv. 150–152;

letter of, on the closing of Charleston Harbor, 471, 472.

S. J. Waring, merchantman, captured by Confederate privateer Jefferson Davis, iv. 91.

Sabine, Federal sailing ship, rescues the crew of the Governor, iv. 167.

Sackett’s Harbor, N. Y., chosen as a naval station, ii. 264;

attacked by the British, 345.

Sailors, kidnapped, cruelty to, on British ships, i. 387.

Sailor’s rights ignored by politicians, ii. 18.

St. Eustatius, Governor of, gives first salute to the American flag, i. 69.

St. James, American privateer, beats off a British frigate, i. 206.

St. John’s, British fleet built at, i. 87.

St. Laurent, Captain, deceived by Captain Bainbridge, i. 317.

St. Lawrence, British liner, iii. 129.

St. Louis, Commodore Foote’s flagship, disabled, iv. 271;

Captain Henry Erben commands, 289.

Sally, purchased by first Marine Committee, i. 39.

Saltonstall, Captain Dudley, i. 46;

commands the Trumbull, 164;

captain of the Warren, 283.

Samoa, hurricane at, iv. 554.

Sand-bar, lifting vessels over a, ii. 289, 290.

San Diego, Cal., John C. Frémont takes possession of, iii. 394.

Sandwich, American privateer, cut out of Puerto Plata by Lieutenant Isaac Hull, i. 329.

San Jacinto, American frigate, iii. 380.

San Jacinto, United States screw sloop, iv. 15;

Mason and Slidell, Confederate Commissioners, taken to Boston in, 148.

See Mason, James Murray.

San Juan de Ulloa, a castle on Gallega Reef, Vera Cruz, fortification of, iii. 418.

Santa Anna, Mexican General, landed from the American fleet at Vera Cruz, iii. 424;

the American Government negotiates with him to return to Mexico, 427;

escorted up the streets of Vera Cruz, ib.;

is recognized by a squad of soldiers and saluted, ib.;

again master of Mexican affairs, ib.

Santee, Federal frigate, blockades Galveston, iv. 137.

Saranac River, the British retire from, iii. 136.

Saratoga, American frigate, i. 287;

captures the Charming Molly and two other ships, 292;

lost in a hurricane, 293.

Saratoga, American privateer, ii. 253.

Saratoga, American corvette, iii. 137, 138;

Macdonough’s flagship in the battle of Lake Champlain, 155.

Sassacus, Federal gun-boat, iv. 456.

Savannah, American frigate, iii. 392.

Savannah, Confederate privateer, captures brig Joseph, iv. 88;

captured by Federal brig Perry, 89.

Sciota, Federal screw gun-boat, iv. 315.

Scorpion, American gun-boat, ii. 292.

Scorpion, American cutter, ii. 408.

Scorpion, American schooner, captured by the British, iii. 110.

Scott, Lieutenant-colonel Winfield, at Black Rock, ii. 275;

takes possession of Squaw Island, 278;

hauls down the British flag, 344.

Scourge, American privateer, ii. 253.

Scourge, American schooner, ii. 350.

Seahorse, American tender, makes a gallant fight against the British fleet, iii. 233–235.

Sea-power, American, in 1812, ii. 21;

of Great Britain, 22.

Search, the right of, on the high seas, i. 387;

reaffirmed, ii. 19.

Seine, French privateer, captured by the American schooner Enterprise, i. 330.

Selfredge, Lieutenant-commander T. O., iv. 369.

Selfredge, Lieutenant-commander T. O., Jr., at Fort Fisher, iv. 519.

Self-restraint of Americans, iii. 303.

Selkirk, Earl of, house of, surrounded by Paul Jones, i. 147, 148.

Selma, Confederate gun-boat, iv. 380.

Selman, Captain John, captures ten British vessels and Governor Wright of St. John’s, i. 203.

Seminole, Federal frigate, iv. 163.

Seminole, Federal gun-boat, iv. 389.

Semmes, Commander Raphael, his ship capsizes and he loses half the crew, iii. 417;

takes command of Confederate cruiser Sumter, iv. 408;

chases the Brooklyn, 409;

captures the Golden Rocket, 410;

takes five prizes into Cuba, 411;

takes the Abby Bradford to Venezuela, 412;

the Powhatan captures her, 413;

some of his captures, 415;

his ship sold to English blockade-runners, ib.;

Brazil authorities allow him to use Fernando de Noronha as headquarters, 427;

appointed to command of Alabama, 431;

ships his officers and men at Terceira, ib.;

encounters the San Jacinto, 432;

captures the Ariel, ib.;

goes to Galveston to intercept transports, ib.;

captures the Hatteras, ib.;

his reception at Cape Town, 434;

his gallantry, 435;

cruises in the East Indies, 436;

fight with the Kearsarge, 438–441;

rescued by the yacht Deerhound, 442;

his reception in England, 447.

Seneca, Federal gun-boat, iv. 163.

Senez, Captain Andre, surrenders to Captain Little of the Boston, i. 328, 329.

Sentiment, a touching tale of, iii. 243, 244.

Serapis, British frigate, encounters the Bonhomme Richard, i. 243;

fight with the latter, 245–259;

surrenders, 259;

comparative strength of the two ships, 265.

Seringapatam, British ship, captured by Porter, iii. 14.

Severn, British ship, ii. 421.

Seward, William H., his reply to the despatch of the British Government relative to the Trent affair, iv. 154–156.

Sewell’s Point, Confederate batteries erected at, iv. 195.

Shajackuda Creek, Niagara River, expedition starts from, ii. 275;

route opened up by Perry, 287.

Shannon, British frigate, ii. 55;

blockades Boston, 200;

challenges the Chesapeake, 203;

captures her, 209–221;

arrives at Halifax, 222;

comparison of the two ships, 229.

Shark, American brig, captures five pirate vessels, iii. 331.

Shark, British sloop, fight of, with American brig Reprisal, i. 71.

Shaw, Lieutenant, captures the French privateer Seine, i. 330.

Sheed, William W., Sailing-master, attacks the British, ii. 402.

Shelburne, British schooner, assists in capturing the Frolic, iii. 65.

Shenandoah, Confederate cruiser, destroys American whaling and sealing fleets, iv. 447.

Sherman, Captain, “bravest man in the Confederate squadrons,” iv. 321, 329, 340.

Sherman, General Thomas W., commands a force against Port Royal, iv. 164.

Shipbuilder, the private, a factor in the sea power of a nation, iv. 38.

Shipbuilding after the Revolution, i. 304.

Ship-masts retained for use of the crown, i. 15.

Shirk, Lieutenant, supports Grant at Pittsburg Landing, iv. 284;

commander of Federal gun-boat Tuscumbia, iv. 363.

Shreveport, La., General Banks sent on expedition to, to frustrate designs of Napoleon III., iv. 368.

Shubrick, Lieutenant J. T., boards the Peacock and endeavors to save the ship from sinking, ii. 184.

Shubrick, Commodore William Bradford, in command of the Pacific Coast Squadron, iii. 401.

“Siege of Plattsburg,” a popular song, iii. 184.

Silver Wave, Federal Army transport, before Vicksburg, iv. 364.

Simcoe, British gun-boat, iii. 143.

Simes, British schooner, sunk, ii. 271.

Sinclair, Captain Arthur, sent to take charge of the American fleet west of the Niagara, iii. 106;

sails into Lake Huron, 107;

destroys St. Joseph, ib.;

destroys a block-house, 108;

returns to Detroit, 109.

Sir Andrew Hammond, British whaler, captured by Porter, iii. 16;

recaptured by the Cherub, 50.

Sir George Prevost, British gun-boat, iii. 143.

Sir James Yeo, British gun-boat, iii. 143.

Sir Sidney Beckwith, British gun-boat, iii. 143.

Sir William Erskine, British sloop, attacked and captured by the American privateer Thorn, i. 209.

Siren, American brig, accompanies Decatur on his expedition to fire the Philadelphia, i. 348–350;

John B. Nicholson placed in command of, iii. 78;

cruises on the coast of Africa, ib.;

is captured, 79.

Slave traffic on the coast of Africa, iii. 360;

Admiral Foote’s efforts to stamp it out, 363–367.

Slavers, chasing, on the African coast, iii. 360–361.

Slavery, kidnapped sailors subjected to a state of, i. 387.

Slidell, John, Confederate commissioner to France. See Mason, James Murray.

Sloat, Captain John Drake, takes possession of Monterey, California, iii. 392;

gives up command of the squadron, 394.

Smith, Lieutenant Albert N., iv. 315.

Smith, Lieutenant Joseph B., attacked by the Merrimac, iv. 207;

stands by his ship until killed, 208.

Smith, Commander Melancthon, iv. 314.

Smith, Lieutenant Sydney, indiscreet zeal of, iii. 136.

Solebay, British frigate, fights with American brig Providence, under Paul Jones, i. 74.

Somers, American brig, enters Vera Cruz harbor and fires the Creole, iii. 417;

capsizes and drowns half her crew, ib.

Somers, American schooner, captured by the British, iii. 111.

Somers, American schooner, in battle of Lake Erie, ii. 295.

Somers, overturned while chasing a blockade-runner, iii. 417.

Somers, Commandant Richard, assists in attack on the city of Tripoli, i. 359–367;

blown up on the Intrepid, 378.

Somers, Captain, fights five duels in succession, iii. 315–317.

Somerset, Fulton ferryboat, captures the blockade-runner Circassian, iv. 37.

Somerville, Captain Philip, assists in the attack on the General Armstrong, iii. 194.

Sorel River, invaded by “Wellington’s Invincibles,” iii. 135.

Soulé, Pierre, Senator and Minister to Spain, iv. 338.

South Carolina islands, as described by Jedidiah Morse, iv. 31.

Southampton, British frigate, flagship of Sir James L. Yeo, ii. 348.

Southcombe, Captain, fights off nine British barges, iii. 204.

Southern States dependent on commerce for necessaries of life, iv. 46;

their lack of factories and mills before the Civil War, ib.

Southfield, Federal gun-boat, iv. 454.

Sparlin, British sloop, captured by the Thorn, i. 209.

Spitfire, American merchantman, stopped by the Guerrière, ii. 7.

Spitfire, British sloop, ii. 359.

Spies, New Orleans fishermen as, iv. 313.

Sproats, David, inhuman conduct of, i. 224.

Spy service of Federal government not as good as the Confederate, iv. 189.

Squaw Island, N. Y., the Detroit grounds on, ii. 278.

Stanton, Edward, Secretary of War, his views of the victory of the Merrimac, iv. 211–212.

Star of the West, Federal steamer, first shot of the Civil War fired at, iii. 363;

taken by the Confederates, ib.

Stars and Stripes first saluted by a foreign power, i. 138.

State of Georgia, Federal warship, iv. 237.

Steamboats under fire of heavy guns, iv. 252.

Steam-rams, first fight of, in history, iv. 307.

Stembel, Captain R. N., before Fort Pillow, iv. 289;

badly wounded, 294.

Sterrett, Lieutenant Andrew, sent to Tripoli, i. 335;

appointed to command the Enterprise, ii. 373;

captures the Tripoli, ib.

Stettin, armed merchantman, attacked by the Confederate ironclad Palmetto State, iv. 474.

Stevens, Captain T. H., at Port Royal, iv. 163.

Stevens, Robert L., invents first ironclad, iv. 9.

Stevens, Commander Thomas Holdup, iv. 386;

in charge of Federal fleet to carry Fort Sumter by storm, 494.

Stewart, Lord George, commander in the attack on the Constitution at Porto Praya, iii. 260.

Stewart, Captain Charles, sails from Boston, iii. 242;

overhauls and captures the British war-schooner Picton, ib.;

falls in with the British frigate La Pique, 243;

finds the British frigates Junon and Tenedos lying in wait for him, 244;

escapes to Marblehead, ib.;

returns to Boston, 245;

sails out of Boston while blockade squadron is off port, ib.;

captures British merchant ship, Lord Nelson, ib.;

chases the Elizabeth, but captures the Susan, 245;

chased by the frigates Tiber and Elizabeth, 246;

escapes, ib.;

encounters the frigate Cyane and sloop-of-war Levant, 247;

opens fire on both ships, 249;

the Cyane surrenders to, 252;

the Levant surrenders to, 255;

sails to Porto Praya with his captures, 260;

the Newcastle, Leander, and Acasta surprise him, 260;

the Newcastle opens fire, 265;

the Constitution sails away free, ib.;

her last fight, 268.

Stivers, A. C., Chief Engineer of the Monitor, iv. 216.

Stockton, Captain Robert Field, succeeds Captain Sloat in command of the Pacific Squadron, iii. 394;

lands and attacks Los Angeles, ib.;

novel trick to deceive the enemy, ib.;

organizes a state government, 397;

is succeeded by Commodore Shubrick, 401;

his trip on Ericsson’s Francis B. Ogden, iv. 10;

he induces Ericsson to come to America, 11;

assigned to the Princeton, 14.

Stoddert, Benjamin, Secretary of Navy, i. 334.

“Stone Fleet,” sinking of the, iv. 470.

Stonewall Jackson, Confederate ironclad, iv. 333;

rams the Varuna and sinks her, 334;

is driven ashore by the Oneida and Cayuga, ib.

Stoney, Theodore D., Charleston citizen, builds, at his own expense, a number of “Davids,” iv. 497.

Stringham, Flag Officer Silas H., assigned to command of Hatteras Island expedition, iv. 99.

Strong, Commander James H., iv. 389.

Submarine torpedo vessel, principles and construction of a, i. 165–170;

experiments made to prove the nature and use of a, 172.

Sullivan’s Island, Charleston, S. C., iv. 469.

Sumatra, attack of natives of, on American ship Friendship, iii. 368.

Sumter, Confederate gun-boat, rams the Cincinnati at Fort Pillow, iv. 293;

surrenders, 302.

Sumter, Confederate ship, captured at Fort Pillow, iv. 302.

Sumter, Confederate cruiser, iv. 407;

Captain Semmes takes command of, 408;

captures the Abby Bradford, 412;

cruises in the Caribbean Sea, 413;

on the Brazil coast, 414;

is chased by Iroquois, ib.;

goes to Spain and Gibraltar, 415;

expense of, to the Confederate Government, 416;

sold and converted into an English merchant-ship, ib.;

runs the blockade of Charleston, ib.;

name changed to the Gibraltar, ib.;

lost in the North Sea, ib.

Superior, American frigate, iii. 113.

Superiority of British naval crews, i. 60.

Superstition, sailors’, iii. 78, 79.

Surprise, American brig, renamed the Eagle, iii. 139.

Surprise, American cutter, i. 123;

captures the ship Joseph and the brig Prince of Orange, 124;

detained in France by the British ambassador, 125.

Surveyor, American schooner, attacked and overpowered by the British frigate Narcissus, ii. 417.

Susquehanna, American ship, sent to Japan in 1851, iii. 443.

Susquehanna, Federal frigate, iv. 163.

Sylph, American schooner, ii. 349.

Symonds, Sir William, his opinion of Ericsson’s Francis B. Ogden, iv. 10.

Tabasco, Mexico, captured by Commodore M. C. Perry, iii. 414.

Tacony, captured by Captain Read of the Clarence, iv. 424.

Tapanagouche, British schooner sent to capture Captain Jeremiah O’Brien, i. 23.

Tarbell, Captain, unsuccessfully attacks the becalmed British fleet in Hampton Roads, ii. 395.

Tartarus, English brig-sloop, iii. 93.

Tattnall, Commodore Josiah, takes part in the English attack on Chinese forts, iii. 382;

attacks the Castle of San Juan de Ulloa in the siege of Vera Cruz, 420–423;

commands a squadron of four vessels sent in to divert the attention of the Mexicans, 424;

exchanges places with a brother officer on the Constellation, and so saves his life, 354;

commands the Confederate fleet at Savannah, iv. 168;

his worthless flotilla, ib.;

attacked by the Federal fleet and retires, 171;

destroys the Merrimac, 236, 237.

Tayloe, Lieutenant, killed while assisting the Union wounded out of the Congress, iv. 209.

Taylor, Captain John, chased by Captain Lawrence of the Hornet, ii. 181.

Taylor, Thomas E., leading blockade-runner, iv. 57.

Tea destroyed in Boston Harbor, i. 13.

Teaser, privateer of New York, ii. 245.

Teaser, American blockade-runner, iv. 60.

Tecumseh, British gun-boat, iii. 145.

Tecumseh, Federal monitor, iv. 386;

sunk by a torpedo, 394.

Tenedos, British frigate, captures the American frigate President, iii. 222;

goes in chase of the Constitution, 244.

Tennessee, Confederate ram, iv. 380.

Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers, how far navigable, iv. 240.

Tennessee opened up by the capture of Fort Henry, iv. 266;

railroad communication cut off from, 267.

Terceira, a Portuguese island, officers and crew of the Alabama shipped from, iv. 431.

Terry, General Alfred H., at Fort Fisher, iv. 516.

Texas, Napoleon III. tries to persuade, to secede from the Confederacy, iv. 367–368.

Thalia, British frigate, ii. 29.

Thames, British frigate, attacks American gun-ship Protector, i. 207.

Thatcher, Master Charles, iv. 370.

Theodora, Confederate blockade-runner, carries Mason and Slidell to Cuba, iv. 141.

Thetis, British frigate, chased by Porter and escapes, ii. 38.

Thomas, American privateer, ii. 252.

Thompson, Confederate ram, sunk at Fort Pillow, iv. 302.

Thompson, Captain Egbert, before Fort Pillow, iv. 290.

Thompson, Captain Thomas, i. 130;

sent to France for supplies, ib.;

returns to America, 132–133.

Thorn, American privateer, attacks and strikes the Governor Tryon and Sir William Erskine, i. 209;

captures the Sparlin, ib.;

captured by the Deane, 284, 287.

Ticonderoga, American schooner, iii. 137–139.

Tigress, American schooner, in battle of Lake Erie, ii. 295;

captured by the British, iii. 109.

Tilghman, General Lloyd, surrenders Fort Henry to Commodore Foote, iv. 265–266.

Tillinghast, Lieutenant T. G., iii. 81.

Tin-clads, light-draft steamers in Admiral Porter’s squadron, iv. 349.

Tiptonville, Pope shuts Confederates in by occupying, iv. 276.

Toey-wan, steamer chartered by Captain Tattnall in the attack on Chinese forts, iii. 382–384.

Tombigbee Channel, Mobile, lined with torpedoes, iv. 406.

Tom Bowline, store-ship for Decatur’s fleet, iii. 271.

Tompkins, American ship, ii. 352.

Toronto, Canada, Americans plan to attack, ii. 339;

a force under General Dearborn sent to attack, 340;

stores and prisoners taken, 342.

Torpedo boat, the first one built, i. 164;

general principles and construction of a submarine vessel, 165.

Torpedoes made of whiskey demijohns, iv. 350.

Townsend, Commander Robert, iv. 369.

Trabangan, Malay settlement, natives of, capture the American merchant-ship Eclipse and kill Captain Wilkins, iii. 374–379.

“Tracking” up a river, ii. 287.

Trajano, Brazilian rebel warship, iv. 548.

Transit, New London merchant-ship, captured by Confederate privateers, iv. 97.

Treaty of Ghent, terms and conditions of, iii. 209;

the real cause of the war ignored in the treaty, 210.

Tredegar Iron Mills, Richmond, Va., the only gun and engine factory possessed by the South at the outbreak of the Civil War, iv. 46.

Trenchard, Lieutenant Stephen Decatur, wounded in a fight with Chinese, iii. 382.

Trent, British mail steamer, Confederate Commissioners Mason and Slidell taken from, iv. 148;

attitude of the British Government in regard to the seizure, 150–152;

instructions to Lord Lyons, 152, 153;

reply of Mr. Seward to the despatch of the British Government, iv. 154;

review of Mr. Seward’s reply, 154–158;

Commodore Smith’s comment on the reply, 156.

Trenton, United States cruiser, ashore at Samoa, iv. 554.

Trepassy, British brig, surrenders to the Alliance, i. 298.

Tribute, paid to Algerian pirates by America, iii. 339;

by England, 340.

Tripoli declares war against America, i. 333;

pays indemnity to United States, iii. 357.

Tripoli, war polacre, is beaten by the American schooner Enterprise, i. 335.

Tripolitans, treachery of, i. 335, 336.

Trippe, American sloop, in battle of Lake Erie, ii. 295.

Trippe, Sailing-master John, at attack on city of Tripoli, i. 366.

Tristan d’Acunha, Island of, in the South Atlantic, Jonathan Lambert pre-empts, iii. 270, 271;

a breeding resort for seals, ib.;

Decatur makes it a rendezvous, ib.

True Briton, captured by the Randolph, i. 160.

Trumbull, American galley, i. 89, 164.

Trumbull, American ship, captures two British transports, i. 164;

cruises along American coast with a crew of landsmen, 290;

is nearly disabled, 291;

attacked by three British ships and surrenders, 295–297.

Truxton, Captain Thomas, captures prizes in the Azores, i. 205;

cuts out three ships from the British fleet, ib.;

fits out the Mars and cruises in the English Channel, ib.;

involves France in war with England, 206;

successfully beats off a British frigate, ib.;

Captain of the Constellation, compels the French frigate Vengeance to fight, 323;

loses her in the night, 328.

Truxton, American brig, grounded before Tuspan, Mexico, and is captured, iii. 410.

Tucker, John, Assistant Secretary of War, asks Commodore Vanderbilt his terms for destroying the Merrimac, iv. 212.

Tucker, Captain Samuel, captures thirty British vessels, i. 203.

Tunis, brought to terms by the American fleet, i. 378, 379;

pays indemnity to United States for seizing the Abellino prizes, iii. 353.

Tuscumbia, Federal gun-boat in Porter’s fleet before Vicksburg, iv. 363.

Tybee Bar, Savannah, coal-ships ordered to go to, iv. 165.

Unadilla, Federal frigate, iv. 163;

attacked by the Confederate ironclad Palmetto State, 474.

Underwriter, Federal gun-boat, boarded and destroyed by John Taylor Wood, iv. 452.

Unicorn, British frigate, captures the Raleigh, i. 194.

United States, American frigate, built, i. 312.

United States Astronomical Expedition to the Southern Hemisphere, members of, iii. 464.

United States, frigate, falls in with the Eurydice and Atalanta, ii. 16;

cruises between the Azores and the Canary Islands, 121;

encounters the Macedonian, 122;

battle with, 125–134;

losses after the battle, 139;

comparison of the forces of the two ships, 140;

blockaded in New London, 150.

United States Government abrogates all treaties with France, i. 314.

United We Stand, American privateer, ii. 253.

Valcour Island, Lake Champlain, fight between Benedict Arnold and Sir Guy Carleton at, i. 92–99.

Van Brunt, Captain G. I., iv. 99.

Vandalia, United States warship, sank at Samoa in a hurricane, iv. 554.

Vandalia, Federal sailing-ship, iv. 163;

sails from Hampton Roads with a fleet of coal schooners in charge, 165;

encounters a hurricane, 166.

Vanderbilt, Commodore Cornelius, asked for what sum he would destroy the Merrimac, iv. 212.

Van Dorn, Confederate gun-boat, rams the Mound City and disables her, iv. 294.

Varuna, Federal screw corvette, iv. 314.

Vaughan, Captain William, at Sackett’s Harbor, ii. 267;

drives off the British, 268.

Vengeance, American brig, in Paul Jones’s fleet, i. 232.

Vengeance, French frigate, fight with the Constellation, i. 323;

surrenders, 327;

slips away in the night to Curaçao, 328;

returned to France, 330.

Vera Cruz, Mexico, siege and blockade of, by Americans, iii. 417–424;

the city captured, 424–427;

the navy’s part in the capture, 424.

Vergennes, Vt., Macdonough builds the Saratoga there, iii. 137.

Vesuvius, United States dynamite cruiser, iv. 540.

Veterans of the Peninsular War sent to subjugate America, iii. 135.

Vicksburg, Admiral Farragut’s fleet arrives at, iv. 341;

moves made against, by way of the Yazoo River country, 350;

they failed, ib.;

General Grant arrives before, 351;

Admiral Porter tries to get in behind, 358–363;

Grant surrounds, 363.

Victor, British gun-boat, captures the Hancock, i. 185.

Vigilant, Federal merchant-ship, captured by Confederate cruiser Sumter, iv. 415.

Vincennes, American ship, sent to Japan in 1845, iii. 440.

Vincennes, Federal war-ship, iv. 129;

misunderstands signals, 133, 134.

Viper, American gun-boat, iii. 141.

Virginia, American frigate, grounded in Chesapeake Bay, i. 186.

Virginia, English frigate, i. 284.

Virginia, a name given to the reconstructed Merrimac, but not used, iv. 189.

Vixen, American cruiser, in the attack on Tripoli, i. 374.

Vixen, American brig, captured by British frigate Southampton, ii. 348.

Vixen, American steamer, in attack on Alvarado, iii. 410.

Voluntaire, French frigate, i. 316.

Wabash, United States screw frigate, iv. 15;

commanded by Captain Samuel Mercer, 99;

Captain C. R. P. Rodgers, commander, 163.

Wachusett, Federal frigate, captures the Florida, iv. 424.

Wadsworth, Captain Alexander Scammel, appointed to the Constellation, iii. 327.

“Waggon, The,” a contemptuous term applied to the frigate President by the British, ii. 360.

Wales, Captain R. W., fights a battle with the Peacock, iii. 68–71;

surrenders, 71;

his ship is carried into Savannah, 77.

Walke, Commander Henry, in charge of transport Supply, iv. 115;

disobeys orders, ib.;

is court-martialed, 116;

appointed to command the Taylor, 250;

convoys General Grant down the Mississippi, 251;

in command of gun-boat Taylor, 251;

gallant conduct of, 252;

his timely aid, ib.;

commands the Carondelet in Commodore Foote’s fleet, 255;

his seeming insolence to Commodore Foote, 266;

commences the attack on Fort Donelson, 268;

diverts the Confederates’ attention from Grant, 271;

successfully runs the Carondelet past the batteries of Island No. 10, 281;

resourcefulness of, 282;

passes six forts, under fire of fifty guns, 283;

aids the Cincinnati, 294.

Walker, American whaler, captured by the Peruvian cruiser Nereyda, iii. 7.

“Wall-piece,” a gun used in capturing the Margaretta, i. 17.

Wampanoag, Federal ironclad, iv. 472, 473.

War of 1812, events which led up to, i. 383;

Great Britain fomented discord between the States of the Union, 384;

used every means to harass American commerce, ib.;

impressed men by force to serve on English ships, 386;

used the press-gang in foreign ports, 387;

demanded right of search on the high seas, ib.;

used nothing to enforce an order but the cat-o’-ninetails, 389;

American ships stripped of their crews, 397;

five men off the Baltimore impressed in the British service, 401;

the affair of the Leopard and Chesapeake, 402–413;

case of the Spitfire and Guerrière, ii. 7;

tricky conduct of the officers of two British frigates, 15;

war declared, 28;

justified by the Trent affair, iv. 140.

War-ship, the first submarine, i. 157;

the first Yankee, on fresh waters, ii. 264;

development of the, from 1815–1859, iv. 1–9.

Ward, Fleet Officer James H., his attack on the Acquia Creek batteries, iv. 81;

killed, 82.

Ward, Samuel, Rhode Island delegate to Continental Congress, i. 31.

Warren, Fort, Mass., Mason and Slidell confined there, iv. 156.

Warren, American frigate, i. 280, 283.

Warrington, Master-commandant Lewis, iii. 66;

attacks and captures the Epervier, 66–71;

succeeds Porter in clearing the South American coast of pirates, 338.

Washington, American galley, i. 89; on Lake Champlain, 99.

Washington, George, and the Congress of the United Colonies, i. 27.

Washington, D. C., conduct of the British sailors at capture of, ii. 418, 419.

Wasp, schooner, of first American Navy, i. 40.

Wasp (No. 2), American sloop-of-war, fight with the Frolic, ii. 107–117;

both the Wasp and the Frolic captured by the British frigate Poictiers, 118, 119;

taken into the British navy and lost at sea, 119.

Wasp (No. 3), American sloop-of-war, cuts her way through British blockaders, iii. 81;

fights and captures the Reindeer, 86–88;

comparison of the two ships, 91;

cuts out the Mary under the convoy of the Armada, and is chased by the Armada, 92;

encounters the Avon, 93;

fights and disables her, 97;

the Castilian and Tartarus appear and chase the Wasp off, 97;

captures two merchantmen and the Atalanta, 100;

mysterious end of, 102–104.

Waters, Captain Daniel, assists in capturing a British troop-ship, i. 203;

desperate fight with two British sloops-of-war, 209.

Water Witch, carries an exploring expedition to Parana, iii. 464.

Water Witch, Federal war-ship, iv. 129–133.

Watson, William H., Lieutenant, ii. 364;

is cut down and carried off unconscious, ib.;

captures a pirate schooner off South America, iii. 335.

Watt, British privateer, fights with the Trumbull, i. 291.

Webb, Confederate ram, iv. 352.

Weehawken, Federal ironclad, iv. 480.

Weitzel, General, in command of troops at Fort Fisher, iv. 513.

Welles, Gideon, Secretary of the Navy, his account of the effect that the raid of the Merrimac had upon a cabinet meeting at Washington, iv. 211.

Wellington, Duke of, on the character of the veterans sent to America, iii. 134.

“Wellington’s Invincibles” invade the Sorel River, iii. 135;

sent to New Orleans under Sir Edward Packenham, iii. 230.

Wellington, British gun-boat, iii. 143.

Wells, Clark H., Lieutenant-Commander, iv. 389.

West India pirates, iii. 324.

Western waters, ships of the line of battle on, iv. 249.

Westfield, Federal ship, destroyed by the Confederates, iv. 357.

West Wind, Federal merchant-ship, captured by Confederate cruiser Sumter, iv. 415.

Whaler, an armed British, transformed into a Yankee cruiser, iii. 9, 10.

Whaling fleet, British, taken by surprise, iii. 8–10.

Wheaton, Joseph, one of the capturers of the Margaretta, i. 16.

Whinyates, Captain Thomas, ii. 106;

encounters the Wasp in a gale, ib.;

gives battle to the Wasp, 107;

wounded, 112;

surrenders, 116;

his ship recaptured by the Poictiers, 118.

Whipple, Abraham, in command of boats attacking the Gaspé, i. 9;

commands American ship Columbus, 66;

in charge of the Providence, 281.

Whiskey demijohns for torpedoes, iv. 350.

White River, Ark., Federal operations on, iv. 307.

White Squadron, formation of, iv. 531–554.

Whitehead, Federal gun-boat, iv. 457.

Wickes, Captain Lambert, in the fight with the Shark, i. 71;

carries Franklin to France, 114;

captures prizes, ib.;

goes on a cruise in the Bay of Biscay, ib.;

captures fifteen prizes, 118.

Wilderness, building war-ships and gun-boats in the, ii. 286.

Wilkes, Captain Charles, stops the British steamer Trent and takes off Mason and Slidell, iv. 144–160;

sails into Boston, with his prisoners, 148, 149;

his conduct commended by Secretary of the Navy Welles, ib.

Wilkinson, General, attempts to attack Montreal, ii. 271;

expedition fails, 272;

builds winter quarters on Salmon River, ib.

William, American merchant-ship, captured by the Java, ii. 153;

recaptured by Captain Lawrence, of the Hornet, 181.

William S. Robins, merchant-ship, captured by Confederate privateers, iv. 97.

Williams, Richard, reports to the British Government on the Trent affair, iv. 150.

Williams, Captain John Foster, captures the British brig Active, i. 206;

fights and blows up the British privateer Admiral Duff, 207;

compels the frigate Thames to haul off, ib.

Williamson, Chief Engineer W. P., assists in the reconstruction of the frigate Merrimac into an ironclad, iv. 185–186.

Will-o’-the-Wisp, blockade runner, iv. 57;

description of, ib.

Wilmer, American gun-boat, iii. 141.

Wilmington, N. C., a favorite resort of blockade-runners, iv. 41.

Wilson, Lieutenant-commander Byron, iv. 363–369.

Winnebago, Federal monitor, iv. 386.

Winona, Federal screw gun-boat, iv. 315.

Wissahickon, Federal screw gun-boat, iv. 315.

Wolfe, British sloop-of-war, ii. 348.

Wood, Lieutenant John Taylor, iv. 189;

boards and destroys the Federal gun-boat Underwriter, 452;

his statement on the retiring of the Monitor from the fight, 230, 231.

Woodworth, Lieutenant S. E., iv. 364.

Woolsey, Lieutenant Melancthon, ii. 264.

Worden, Lieutenant John L., causes Fort Pickens to be reinforced, iv. 119;

arrested and held prisoner for seven months, ib.;

Captain of the Monitor, 205;

begins the battle with the Merrimac, 219;

gets to close quarters, 222;

has his ship under good control, 212;

disabled, 225;

Lieutenant Greene succeeds him in command, 229;

transferred to a tug and taken to Washington, 230;

letter to him from his crew, 233;

Captain of the Montauk, 480.

Wright, Governor, of St. John’s, captured by Captain Selman, i. 203;

released, ib.

Wyalusing, Federal gun-boat, iv. 457.

Wyer, Captain, captures four prizes in the Mediterranean, iii. 343.

Wyman, Captain R. W., at Port Royal, iv. 163.

Yankee squadron, first cruise of the, i. 48.

Yarmouth, British ship, attacked by the Randolph, i. 162.

Yarnall, Lieutenant, in the battle of Lake Erie, ii. 313;

Perry leaves him in charge, 318.

Yellow fever decimates the crews of the American ships before Vera Cruz, iii. 418.

Yeo, Sir James L., placed in command of the British naval forces on Lake Ontario, ii. 348;

captures the American brig Vixen in the West Indies, ib.;

sends an insulting challenge to Captain Porter of the Essex, ib.;

captures two schooners and supplies, ib.;

meets Commodore Chauncey’s squadron, 349;

has some brushes with the enemy, 350–353;

operations on Lake Ontario, iii. 114–126.

York, Confederate privateer, iv. 93.

Yucatan, Mexico, governed by the Americans during the Mexican War, iii. 414.