Political agitation, beginnings of, 145.
Polk, Major-General, 245, 248.
Pomare, Queen, 49.

Pope, General John, 257, 282, 287, 289,
295.

Slave-trade, the African, 67, 71.
Smith, General C. F., 184.

Smith, Rear-Admiral Joseph, letters
from, 61, 63, 75, 87, 97, 100, 141,
167, 219, 239, 261, 316, 340, 385.

Porter, Captain, wounded at Fort Hen- Smith, Truman, letter to, 81.
ry, 202.

Social characteristics, 387.

Porter, Commodore David D., letter South America, cruising-ground, 29,

from, 359.

Porto Praya, 85.

Portsmouth, cruise of the, 106, 122.

Preaching at Cairo, 218.

34.

South Atlantic squadron, appointment

to command of, 372.

Spiking rebel battery, 279.

Professional reputation, jealousy for, 388. Spirit-ration, abolishing the, 61.

Puritan household, 16.

Puritan stamp of religious character, 33.

R.

Read, Commodore, 44.

Stembel, Commander, 201, 312, 317;
letter from, 180.

Stewart, Chaplain, 36.

St. Helena, 87.

St. Louis, head-quarters at, 158.

Rear-Admiral, appointment to the office St. Louis, the, 34.
of, 354.

Reconnoissance up the Tennessee, 174;
of Fort Henry, 191; of Columbus, 241.
Religion, labors in the cause of, 139.
Religious character, 384.

Religious life, beginnings of, 32.

Report of physicians, 329.

Right of search, 74, 80.

Ringgold, Captain C., letter from, 356.
Rockwell, Hon. J. A., letter to, 62.
Rodgers, Commodore, Chief of Bureau
of Docks and Yards, 404.
Rodgers, Commodore John, 164.
Running the blockade at Island No. Ten,
283.

S.

St. Louis, the gun-boat, 158, 204.
Storms, philosophy of, 69.
Street, Augustus Russel, 57.
Sunday, remarkable service on, 295.
Sword, presentation of a, 361.
Sympathy, element of character, 358.

Tahiti, 48.

T.

Tatnall, Commodore, 64, 133.

Taylor, the gun-boat, 158, 185, 196, 222,
228, 252, 296, 321.

Temperance address, 59, 97.
Temperance reform in the Navy, 56, 58,
62, 97.

Tilghman, Brigadier-General, 195, 203.
Total-abstinence principles, 385.

Sailor, qualities as a, 398; friend of the, Treaty of United States with Great Brit-

399.

Index.

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