Chapter XXIV: Appendix: Naval Calls (3)

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.

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