The Naval History of the United States. Volume 2

We will now leave for a time the blue-water sailors, whose battles, triumphs, and defeats we have been considering, and look at the work done by the tars of both North and South...

It will be remembered that when the Union forces, alarmed by the threatening attitude of the inhabitants of Norfolk and the vicinity, fled from the Norfolk navy-yard, leaving ev...

DESULTORY HOSTILITIES ON THE OCEAN. -- ATTACK UPON FORT BOWYER. -- LAFITTE THE PIRATE. -- BRITISH EXPEDITION AGAINST NEW ORLEANS. -- BATTLE AT THE RIGOLETS. -- ATTACK ON NEW ORL...

While the smaller gunboats were thus making dashes into the enemy's country, destroying batteries and unfinished war-vessels, and burning salt-works, the heavier vessels of the...

While it is undeniably true that the naval battles of the civil war were in many cases unimportant as compared with the gigantic operations of the mighty armies in Virginia and...

Let us now desert, for a time, the progress of the Union forces down the Mississippi River, and turn our attention toward the true home of the sailors,--the blue waters of the o...

After the destruction of the Confederate flotilla at Elizabeth City, and the affair at Winton, the Union fleet remained quietly at anchor off Roanoke Island, or made short excur...

THE LONG PEACE BROKEN BY THE WAR WITH MEXICO. -- ACTIVITY OF THE NAVY. -- CAPTAIN STOCKTON'S STRATAGEM. -- THE BATTLE AT SAN JOSE. -- THE BLOCKADE. -- INSTANCES OF PERSONAL BRAV...

OPERATIONS ON THE NEW ENGLAND COAST. -- THE BOMBARDMENT OF STONINGTON. -- DESTRUCTION OF THE UNITED STATES CORVETTE "ADAMS." -- OPERATIONS ON CHESAPEAKE BAY. -- WORK OF BARNEY'S...

PRIVATEERS AND PRISONS OF THE WAR. -- THE "ROSSIE." -- SALEM PRIVATEERS. -- THE "GEN. ARMSTRONG" GIVES BATTLE TO A BRITISH SQUADRON, AND SAVES NEW ORLEANS. -- NARRATIVE OF A BRI...

ON THE LAKES. -- CLOSE OF HOSTILITIES ON LAKES ERIE AND HURON. -- DESULTORY WARFARE ON LAKE ONTARIO IN 1813. -- HOSTILITIES ON ONTARIO IN 1814. -- THE BATTLE OF LAKE CHAMPLAIN....

While Commodore Foote, with his flotilla of gunboats and mortar-boats, was working his way down the Mississippi River, making occasional dashes into the broad streams that flow...

ON THE OCEAN. -- THE WORK OF THE SLOOPS-OF-WAR. -- LOSS OF THE "FROLIC." -- FRUITLESS CRUISE OF THE "ADAMS." -- THE "PEACOCK" TAKES THE "EPERVIER." -- THE CRUISE OF THE "WASP."...

THE OPENING DAYS OF THE WAR. -- THE FIRST BLOW STRUCK IN THE PACIFIC. -- DEWEY AND HIS FLEET. -- THE BATTLE AT MANILA. -- AN EYE-WITNESS' STORY. -- DELAY AND DOUBT IN THE EAST....

Early in the war an event occurred which for a time seemed likely to bring England to the aid of the Confederates. The Confederate Government had appointed as diplomatic commiss...

HOW THE NAVY HAS GROWN. -- THE COST AND CHARACTER OF OUR NEW WHITE SHIPS OF WAR. -- OUR PERIOD OF NAVAL WEAKNESS AND OUR ADVANCE TO A PLACE AMONG THE GREAT NAVAL POWERS. -- THE...

In petty skirmishes and in general inactivity the forces of both contestants idled away the five months following the fall of Fort Sumter. The defeat of the Union armies at Bull...

CAPTURE OF THE "SURVEYOR." -- WORK OF THE GUNBOAT FLOTILLA. -- OPERATIONS ON CHESAPEAKE BAY. -- COCKBURN'S DEPREDATIONS. -- CRUISE OF THE "ARGUS." -- HER CAPTURE BY THE "PELICAN...

The great joint naval and military expedition, which in August, 1861, had reduced the forts at Hatteras Inlet, and, continuing its progress, had, by successive victories, brough...

The first grand step toward the capture of Vicksburg was made when the river-flotilla followed Porter down the Mississippi, and past the guns of the Confederate batteries. Grant...

THE STATE OF CUBA. -- PERTINACITY OF THE REVOLUTIONISTS. -- SPAIN'S SACRIFICES AND FAILURE. -- SPANISH BARBARITIES. -- THE POLICY OF RECONCENTRATION. -- AMERICAN SYMPATHY AROUSE...

While New Orleans was thus excited over the capture of the city, the soldiers in the forts below were debating as to the course they should adopt. They had not surrendered; and...

The disparity of maritime importance between the North and the South, and the consequent difficulties to be overcome by the latter in getting a navy, have been already alluded t...

THE NAVY IN PEACE. -- SURVEYING THE DEAD SEA. -- SUPPRESSING THE SLAVE TRADE. -- THE FRANKLIN RELIEF EXPEDITION. -- COMMODORE PERRY IN JAPAN. -- SIGNING OF THE TREATY. -- TROUBL...

The first purely warlike event of the civil war was the bombardment and capture of Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, by the troops of the State of South Carolina. At the time wh...

POLICE SERVICE ON THE HIGH SEAS. -- WAR SERVICE IN ASIATIC PORTS. -- LOSSES BY THE PERILS OF THE DEEP. -- A BRUSH WITH THE PIRATES. -- ADMIRAL RODGERS AT COREA. -- SERVICES IN A...

The naval forces of the United States during the war may be roughly classified as the Atlantic fleets, the river navy, and the Gulf squadron. The vessels comprising the latter d...

THE NAVAL MILITIA. -- A VOLUNTEER SERVICE WHICH IN TIME OF WAR WILL BE EFFECTIVE. -- HOW BOYS ARE TRAINED FOR THE LIFE OF A SAILOR. -- CONDITIONS OF ENLISTMENT IN THE VOLUNTEER...

The last two actions of the United States navy in the civil war were destined to be the grandest successes of a long record of daring and successful exploits. Farragut at Mobile...

The story of the naval operations of the civil war is a record of wonderful energy and inventive skill in improvising and building war-vessels, vigilance and courage in handling...

July 3d the land forces of General Shafter were closing in on Santiago. There had been hard fighting for two days, in which both sides had shown dogged courage, but the Spaniard...

We have now reached the period at which the rapid decline in the prospects of the Confederacy had become apparent, not only to its enemies, but to its friends. Throughout the So...

In noticing the work of the blockading-fleet, we have spoken of the fine harbor of Wilmington, and the powerful works that defended its entrance. This Confederate stronghold was...