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Most naval installations are listed in this index under the type of installation rather than its location. (e.g. navy yard).
As is customary, the appendixes are not indexed.
Abbot, Lt. Joel: 611
Active: 609
Adams, John Quincy: 17
Adams: 107
Admiralty courts: 401
Advertisements: 34, 94, 107, 313, 337, 350, 383
Advisory Board To Suggest the Number and Classes of Naval Vessels: 370
African colonization: 17, 41, 102, 105
Africans, relocation of those rescued from slave vessels: 14, 17, 41
Aiken's Landing: 56
Alabama: 329, 348, p. 99, 406, 408, 411
Alabama, CSS: 54
Alaska: 38
Alden, Capt. James: 368
Alexander, Brig. Gen. B.S.: 368
Alexis, Grand Duke of Russia: 51
Algiers, Dey of: 11
All Atlantic messages: 232
Alliance: 609
ALNAV messages: 232
Amager Island: 595
American Colonization Society: 17, 41
American Expeditionary Forces: p. 57-58
American Revolution naval records: p. 1, 500, 523, 548, 549, 550, 551, 556
American Telegraph Company: 94
Americans abroad
Amistad: 14
Ammen, Rear Adm. Daniel: 382
Analoston: 617 Anderson, Comdr. Edwin A.: 288
Anderson, Thomas D.: 612
Annapolis, MD: 237
Antigua: 586
Antisubmarine devices: 30
Apprentices:179
Aquidillana: 596
Arctic expeditions: 44, 581, 589, 628
Argentine Naval Commission: 31
Argus: 628
Armed Occupation Act of 1842: 399
Armenia: 60
Armor manufacturing companies: 29
Armstrong, Comdr. John F.: 470
Army and Navy Boards: p. 92, 371
Artillery districts
Aspinwall, Thomas: 322
Assistant for Naval Operations: p. 58, 212, 213, 214
Assistant Secretary of the Navy: p. 56, 210, 211, 282
Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Air), list of: p. 5
Atlanta: 62
Attorney General of the United States: 20, 29, 44, p. 50, 181, 405
Aurora: 585
Australia: 301
Bache, Alexander D.: p. 91
Bache, Lt. Richard: 606
Bainbridge, Como. William: p. 79, 360
Bainbridge: 389
Baker, Col. Lafayette: p. 50
Baker, William R.: 397
Baldwin, Loammi: 333
Balloons: 240
Baltimore, MD: 179 190, 237, 328, 355
Baltimore: 628
Barbados: 588
Barbary Wars: 39, 208, 534. See also Tripoli, war with.
Barker, Capt. Albert S.: 371
Barnard, Bvt. Brig. Gen. John G.: p. 91, 368
Barney, Comdr. Joseph N.: 644
Barney, Capt. Joshua: 14
Barron, Samuel: 503
Battery Brooke: 660
Battleship Force One: 246
Bauman, William: 382
Bavaria: 212
Beardslee, Comdr. S.A.: 38
Beatriz: 596
Beaufort, SC: 59
Beaufort: 659
Bedinger, Daniel: 21
Bengal: 592
Benson, Adm. William S.: 212, 213
Bering Sea Award Act of 1894: 29
Biddle, Commodore James: 39
Bierbower, F.H.: 397
Billingsly, Ensign W.D.: 237
Blackbeard Island, GA: 346
Blake, Lt. George S.: 611
Blockade-runners: 25, 38, 167, 186, 187, 188
Board for Examination of Naval Inventions: p. 90, 361, 362, 366
Board for Testing Ordnance: 358
Board for the Examination of Volunteer Officers for Admission to the REgular Navy: 375
Board of Admiralty: 548
Board of Arbitration on the Army and Navy Maneuvers, New London and Naragansett Artillery Districts: 374
Board of Examiners on Inventions and Plans: 55
Board of Examining Professors in Mathematics: 380
Board of Navy Commissioners: 15, 16, 21, 36, 43, 102, 127, pp. 78-79, 303, 304, 345, 360, 390, p. 97, 402, p. 107, 446, 447, 471, 484, 604
Board of Underwriters of New York City: 52
Board on Navy Yards: 369
Board to Prepare a Code of Regulations for the Government of the Navy: 367
Board to Review Cases of Officers Passed Over for Promotion: 378, 379
Boards of inspection: 58
Boards of investigation: 51
Boards of naval construction: 102
Boards of survey for naval vessels: 63, 454
Boggs, W. Brenton: 397
Bolshevik activities: 213, 214
Bonaparte: 614
BonHomme Richard: 555
Bonilla, Gen. Manuel: 288
Booth, John Wilkes: 3, 485, 489
Boston, MA: 179, 190, 195, 328, 355, 630
Boston: 62
Bounties: 180, 184, 441, 450, 572
Bounty land claims: 61
Boy Scouts of America: 252
Brandywine, USS: 455, p. 114, 628, 635
Bristol, England: 186
British Navy: 578, 579, 585, 591
British Navy Board: 583
British War Office: 299
British West Indies: 586
Broohead, Daniel D.: 630
Brooklyn: 628
Brownsville, TX: 482
Buchanan, Franklin: 38
Bureau of Aeronautics: 520
Bureau of Construction and Repair: 62, p. 79, 502
Bureau of Construction, Equipment, and Repair: 48, 159, p. 79, p. 95, 386, p 99., 409
Bureau of Equipment: p.102, 415, 416, 417
Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting: p. 36, p. 95, p. 102
Bureau of Fisheries: 520
Bureau of Navigation: 46, 60, 66, p. 36, p. 57, p. 58, 216, 232, 285, p. 102-03, 453, 502, 517, 520, p. 141
Bureau of Navy Yards and Docks: p. 99
Bureau of Ordnance: p. 97, 490, 494, 636
Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography: 46, 49, p. 79, p. 97, 393-98 p. 114
Bureau of Yards and Docks: 202, p. 99, 405
Burr, Col. Aaron: 9
Burroughs, William: 592
Byng, Adm. Sir Goerge: 578
Caimanera, Cuba: 289
California: 411
California: 635
Callao Bay, Peru: 318
Calypso, HMS: 581
Camp Curtiss, NY: 237
Canandaigua: 635
Canton, China: 318
Cape Cod Bay: 251
Carnes, Edwin Osgood: 397
Caroline Islands: 301
Carter, Lt. Jonathan H.: 397, 647
Cartographers: 396
Cassin, Capt. John: 319
Cassius, USS:
594
Castine:
635
"Cavendish Regiment":
554
Cavite, Philippines Islands:
283,
599
Central America:
203
Ceres, HMS:
581
Chambliss, Maj. N.R.:
646
Chandler, Maj. George H.:
p. 50,
201
Chandler, William E.:
50,
62,
201
Chaplains:
37,
106,
121,
140,
144,
160,
173
Charleston, SC:
672
Charlestown, MA:
355
Charming Sally:
609
Chauncey, Isaac:
p. 79
Chauncey, Comdr. John L.:
319
Chester:
289
Chicago:
62
Chickamauga:
660
Chief of Naval Operations:
p. 2,
p. 57-58,
212,
213,
214,
231,
232,
272
Chile:
318
Chinese Eastern Railroad:
214
Citizenship, declaration of:
47
Civil War
Civilian training cruises:
252
Claims
Claxton, Lt. Alexander:
348
Clay, Henry:
17
Clitz, Commodore John M.B.:
59
Coast and Geodetic Survey:
520,
540
Coast survey, vessels used in the:
43
Coast Survey Office:
44
Collins, Lt. N.:
397
Colombia:
282
Colonel Harney:
409
Colorado:
626
Colwell, Lt. John C.:
281
Commander-in-Chief, Asiatic Fleet:
214
Commander in Chief of Naval Forces Operating in European Waters:
212,
213
Commissary General of Prisoners:
56,
187
Commission for the Evacuation of Cuba:
p. 105
Commission for the Exchange of Prisoners:
56
Commission on Navy Yards:
369
Commission to Ascertain the Cost of Removing the Naval Observatory:
p. 94,
381,
382
Commission To Oversee the Sale of Philadelphlia Navy Yard:
383
Commissioner of Indian Affairs:
44
Commissioner of Patents:
20,
44
Commissioner of Pensions:
20,
44,
61,
118,
133,
184
Condor:
296
Cone Island:
397
Confederacy:
629
Confederate States Army muster rolls:
671
Confederate States Depository, Nashville, TN:
648
Confederate States Marine Corps:
p. 141,
p. 142,
653,
654,
655,
657
Confederate States Navy:
500,
501
Confederate States Navy Department:
p141-42
Confederate States of America agents in Europe:
44
Confederate States Treasury:
p. 141,
663,
670
Congress, Members of
Congress, USS:
389,
455,
p. 113,
628
Congressional documents:
534
Congressional resolutions:
42,
44
Conner, Capt. David:
358
Constellation, USS:
332,
628,
635
Constitution:
628
Consular agents:
167
Consular reports:
25
Continental Congress:
550
Continental Marine Committee:
548
Continental Navy Board:
548
Contractors:
Contracts:
46,
310,
313,
315,
318,
326,
328,
330,
333,
336,
337,
338,
386,
390,
439,
450,
462,
467,
472,
474,
534,
630
Cooper, Comdr. G.F.:
288
Cooper, James Fenimore:
603
Coopers:
495
Copeland, Charles W.:
317
Cormoran:
296
Cornell, Thomas F.:
402
Cornubia:
660
Correspondence of the Cooperation of the Navy with the Revenue
Cutter Service and Coast Survey:
540
Couden, Lt. Albert R.:
461
Courtenay, Edward H.:
317
Courts-martial:
3,
4,
427,
447,
466,
471,
477,
550,
591
Courts of inquiry:
24,
182,
556
Cox, Edward N.:
428
Coxe, Tench:
8
Cristobal Colon:
598
Cromwell, Comdr. Bartlett J.:
p. 113
Cruiser and Transport Force:
217,
247,
248
Cuba:
25,
28,
60,
285,
289,
p. 105,
431,
432,
433,
434,
435,
436,
645
Cumberland, USS:
p. 104
Curaçao
Historical Section. See Historical Section.
appointments as acting officers:
125
and blockade of Southern ports:
23,
540
captured blockade runners:
187,
188
collection of naval records pertaining to:
p. 1,
p. 3,
535,
536,
537
Confederate naval records. See Confederate States Navy.
Confederate officers:
167
joint Army-Navy operations:
44,
45
naval engagements:
45,
54,
56,
440,
673
naval officers' correspondence during:
23,
603
naval ovessels serving in:
419,
p. 103,
p. 104,
441
officers assigned to ships during:
118,
135
operations against Confederates:
25
prisoners of war:
23,
44,
56,
187,
188,
440,
441,
448,
485,
503
prize vessels:
189,
190,
191,
192,
193,
194,
195,
196,
197,
198,
199,
542,
543,
544
and relations with Great Britain:
20,
25
and resignations from the Navy:
126,
130,
178
seizures of blockade runners:
38
service of pilots in:
174
transportation of troops:
448
Union Navy officers:
167,
526
Union naval prisoners of war:
56
Union naval records:
p. 1
Union ordnance depots:
p. 107,
p. 114
Union vessels captured by Confederates:
56
and volunteer officers:
p. 36
bounty land:
61
correspondence regarding:
18,
43,
89,
557
involving pricate contractors:
181,
182,
184
involving violations of patent rights:
182
for losses caused by collisions:
182,
184
for losses due to seiizures of vessels or cargoes:
182
for pay owed naval personnel:
182,
184
for prize money:
182,
191
for reimbursement of travel expenses:
184
U.S. Navy and Great Britain:
273
battles with:
45,
54,
56
civilian employees:
652
and destruction of Pensacola Navy Yard:
p. 100
fiscal records:
663-70
muster rolls:
503,
p. 141,
651,
652,
653,
655
officers:
167,
527,
530,
537,
p. 141,
644
payrolls:
503,
p. 141,
651,
652,
653,
654,
655,
656
records relating to:
p. 1,
500,
501,
503,
527,
p. 141-42,
644-74
Savannah, GA, Naval Station:
653,
657
Savannah River Squadron:
656,
664,
669
shore establishments:
503,
652,
653,
657
squdrons:
501,
503
supplies for:
645
vesselsl captured:
543,
544
appointments made on the recommendation of:
144
correspondence with the Secretary of the Navy:
14,
18,
27,
36,
42,
111
Confederate Navy:
645
647
for steam machinery:
203,
204
for the transport of mail:
203
for work at Navy yards:
205
composition of:
181,
427
correspondence regarding:
4,
9,
13,
18,
23,
24,
42,
53,
54
general orders for:
p. 27,
67
Marine Corps officers:
4
orders:
643
sentences:
18,
24,
637,
643
Curtiss, Glenn: 237
Customs duties: 90, 100, 534, 575
Customs permits: 586
Cutbush, Edward: 611
Dahlgren, Rear Adm. John A.: 368, p. 114
Daniels, Joosephus: p. 2
Davis, Comdr. Archibald F.: 288
Davis, Rear Adm. Charles H.: p. 91, 368, 625
Day, Comdr. Benjamin F.: p. 113
De Blois, Lt. Thomas A.: p. 113
De Bree, John: 367
Dead Sea Expedition: 409
Deaths: 51, 67, p. 28, 105, 151, 158, 159, 184, 216, 237, 266, 422, 433, 447, 473, 512, 522
Deblois, Charles: 617
Decatur, Capt. Stephen: 9, 314
Delano, B.F.: 451
Denison, Henry: 628
Denmark: 595
Department of Agriculture, Commissioner of the: 44
Depot of Charts and Instruments; 37, p. 79, 308, 321, p. 97
Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Administration): p. 3
Deserters: 51, p. 28, 182, 299, 422, 439, 441, 444, 448, 452, 453, 462, 477, 488, 664
Dichosa: 596
Diplomatic communications: 45, 186
Diplomatic functions performed by naval officers: 44
Diplomatic personnel: 167
Directors of Naval Intelligence: p. 70
Disaster assistance: 286
Disloyalty during the Civil War: 25, 49, 473
District of Columbia, Provost Marshal of the: 488
Diving equipment: 398
Division of Operations Forces: p. 57-58
Division of Operations of the Fleet 216
Dixie: 659
Dominican Republic: 60, 284, 289. See also Santo Domingo.
Dornin, Como. Thomas A.: 423
Doughty, William: 317, 342, 347
Drake: 582
Drawings and sketches: 36, 37, 46, 48, 348, 362
Dublin, Ireland: 186
Dublin Journal: 580
Duke of Montrose, HMS: 581
Dulany, Daniel: 491
Eagle, Como. Henry: 54
Early Records Section: p. 3
Earthquakes: 286
Eckard, Henry: 317
Edison, Thomas A.: 520
El Thetis: 587
Ella: 673
Ellis: 660
Ellyson, Aviator Lt. Theodore G.: 237
Emergency Fleet Corporation: p. 57, 224, 522
Engineer Corps: 48
Engineer-in-Chief: 48, 159, 320, 387
Engineers: 24, 105, 106, 141, 159, 164, 165, 170, 172, 173, 176, 177, 311, 317, 325, 333, p. 99, 464, 496, 620, 672
Engle, Como. Frederick: 54
Essex, USS: 182
Europe: 203
Examination boards: 3, 24, 58, 115, 375, p. 93, 376, 377, 378, 379, 380
"Excellent Gunnery, The": 635
Executive agencies; correspondence wit the Secretary of the Navy: 19, 20, 36, 44
Exploring expeditions: 37, 316, 330, 393, 397, 603, 608, 628, 633
Fairfax, Comdr. Donald McN.: 182
Fairfield: 389
Falmouth: 389
Fana Island: 301
Far East: p. 58
Faron, John: 317
Farragut, Adm. David G.: 437
Farrand, Capt. Ebenezer: 607
Fenimore Cooper, USS: 397
Fiji Times: 580
Finland: 214
Firefly: 664
First Massachusetts State Foot Regiment: 554
Fleets
Fletcher, Josiah: 554
Flight training: 237, 239, 240
Flirt: 389
Florida
Florida Indian Wars: 37, 38, 61
Flotillas
Fore River Shipbuilding Company: 31
Foreign ministers: 167
Foreign officials, disputes with: 39
Fort Holmes, NC: 673
Fort Jefferson, FL: 188
Fort St. Philip, LA: 671
Forton Prison, England: 523
Fortress Monroe, VA: 621
Fowey, HMS: 581
Fox, Josiah: 12
Franklin, USS: 389, 455, p. 112, 471
Freedom (Manila newspaper); 580
French Navy: 593
Friendship: 52
Frolic: p. 114
Fulton, Robert: 64
Fulton, USS: 389
Furieuse, HMS: 581
Gallagher, Charles T.: 584
Gallatin, Albert: 11
Gauntt, Lt. Charles: 611
General Board: 522
General Land Office: 20
George Washington, USS: 234
Georgia, CSS: 198, 658, 664, 669
Germany: 60, 276, 277, 280, 283, 294, 297, 298, 299
Gift, George W.: 503
Gillis, Lt. James M.: 308, 321
Glasgow, Scotland: 186
Glass, Comdr. Henry: 38
Gleaves, Albert: 248
Goldsborough, Charles W.: p. 79
Goldsborough, Lt. Louis M.: 321
Gordon: 659
Graham, William: 159
Grant, Adm. Albert W.: 299, 415
Great Britain:
Great Lakes: 500
Greece: 254
Greely Expedition: 44
Greenland: 581
Gregory, Rear Adm. Francis H.: 54
Grice, Francis: 317
Grier, William: 397
Grier: 296
Grimes, John: p. 1
Guadalupe: 596
Guam: 509
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba: 237, 289
Gun factories: p. 114, 646, 674
Gun Foundry Board: 384
Hague, The: 642
Hague: 609
Haire, Charles: 402
Halifax: 588
Hamburg, Germany: 186
Hammondsport, NY: 237
Hancock, John: 549
Hara, Vice Admiral: 301
Harpers Ferry, VA, cannon foundry: 4
Harper's Weekly: 580
Harriet Lane, CSS: 644
Hartford, USS: p. 104
Hartman, Pvt. William H.: 673
Hartt, Edward: 46
Haswell, Charles H.: 48, 317, 387
Hatfield, Comdr. Charles: 38
Hayes, Comdr. Charles H.: 288
Hazard: 609
Hedrick, Col. John J.: 673
Helm, Charles J.: 645
Henry, Joseph: p. 91
Herbert, Charles: 523
Hibernian Journal: 580
Hill, Jeremiah: 556
Hillard, Moses: 610
Historical Section
Hitchcock, Lt. Robert B.: 321
Hong Kong Telegraph: 580
Hope, Capt. John: 582
Hornblower, Joseph C.: 382
House Committee on Appropriations: 10
House Committee on Claims: 10, 12
House Committee on Naval Affairs: 10, 42, 89
House Committee on Reform in the Civil Service: 10
House Committee on Ways and Means: 10, 42
Houston, Sam: 605
Howell, Capt. J.C.: 376
Hudson, Henry: 64
Hudson-Fulton Celebration: 64
Hull, Como. Isaac: 39, 357, p. 113
Humphreys, Samuel: 317, 332, 604
Hunt, William H.: p. 1
Hunter, Lt. C.G.: 37
Hutton, James: 348
Hydrographic equipment: p. 97, 395
Hydrographic Office: p. 97, 395, 396
Hydrographic Office, Superintendent of the: 24
Indians, protection of U.S. citizens against: 38
Intelligence gathering: 45
Inter-Allied Naval Council: 213
Inter-Allied Supreme War Council: 213
International Peace Conferences
Interned Germans, World War I: 29
Inventions: 36, 43, 46, 48, 55, 57, 306, p. 90, 361, 362, 363, 364, 365, 366, 534, 593, p. 141
Inventors: 167
Irving, William: 563
Isabel: 596
Isherwood, Benjamin F.: 46, 48, 159
Italy: 212, 223, 239, 276, 277, 280, 299, 585
Jacobs, Col. John: 554
James River: 660
Jamestown, CSS: p. 104-05, 644
Japan: 45, 65, 213, 283, 295, 299, 301
Jarvis, James: 412
Java, USS: 179
Jeff Davis: 659
Jenkins, Rear Adm. Thornton A.: 168, 606, 639
John Adams, USS: p. 104-05
Johnson, Lt. Comdr. Henry L.: p. 113
Joint Army and Navy Board on Harbor Defense: 368
Jones, Comdt. Catesby Ap R.: 503, 646
Jones, John Paul: 523, 555, 582, 584
Jones, Robert: 569
Jones, Capt. Thomas Ap Catesby: 39, 308, 319, 334, 358, 393
Joven Clara: 596
Judge Advocate General of the Navy: p. 50
Judiciary Act of 1789: p. 50
Julia: 596
Jutland: 299
Kane, Elisha: 589
Kaou Kwang, Emperor of China: 37
Kearsarge, USS: 54
Keen, James: 346
Keith, Lord: 587
Kennedy, Capt. Edmund P.: 319
Kensington, PA: 179
Key, Francis Scott: 17
Killen Harbor: 397
Kimball, Rear Adm. William W.: p. 2, p. 58
Kingfisher, HMS: 581
Kingston, Jamaica: 286
Knapp, C.P.: 607
Knox, Commorodre Dudley W.: p. 2, p. 3
Lake Champlain: 591
Lake Erie: 591
Landreth, John: 348
Lardner, Comdr. J.L.: 467
Latin America: 14, 28, 37, 60, 203, p. 58, 231
Le Roy, Rear Adm. William: 379
Le Roy Board: 379
LeCompte, Lt. Samuel W.: 611
Lee, Rear Adm. Samuel Phillips: 620, 621
Lee, Adm. Smyth: 592
Lenthall, John: 317
Levant: 389
Libengels: 296
Liberia: 17
Library of Congress, and naval records: p. 2
Lighthouse inspectors: p. 36
Lighthouse Service: 520
Lighthouses
Lima, Peru: 318
Lincoln, Abraham: 130
Lincoln, Robert: 44
Littlepage, Hardin B.: 530, p. 141
Liverpool, England: 186
Liverpool, HMS: 581
London, England
London Packet: 580
Lousiana: 329, 348, p. 99, 403, 406, 408, 647, 661
Louisiana Volunteers: 671
Luce, Rear Adm. Stephan B.: 374
Lucilene, HMS: 581
Lusitania: 602
Lynch, WIlliam F.: 409
Lyon, George A.: 631
Mabel: 609
Macedonian: 628
Macomb, Capt. W.H.: 376
Madeira Islands: 397
Madrid, Spain: 278
Magicienne, HMS: 581
Mahan, Capt. Alfred T.: 591
Maid of Orleans: 409
Maine: 556
Malaga, Spain: 186
Manila, Philippine Islands: 28, 60, 318
Manila: 599
Maps: 36, 37, 45, 54, 402, 460
Marietta: 288
Marine Barracks, Washington, DC: 98
Marine Corps
Marines
Maritime Manuscripts (Prize Cases): 553
Martin, Daniel B.: 387
Marvell, Capt. George R.: 252
Maryland: 14
Mason, Lt. Theodorus B.M.: p. 57
Massachusetts Provincial Congress, Committee of Safety: 549
Massachusetts Revolutionary Archives: 553, 556
Matamoras, Mexico: 482
Maury, Lt. W.L.: 367
Maxwell, Charles W.: 367
McCarteny, Lt. Charles M.: 461
McHenry, James: 562
McKinley, WIlliam: 105
McRae, Colin J.: 646
Medical board: 115
Medical care: 46
Medical officers: 24, 127, 131, 137, 160, 164, 165, 172 173
Mediterranean region: 14, 37, 71, 254, 558
Merchant seamen: 512
Merir Island: 301
Merrimac, USS: p. 104
Metacomet: 628
Mexico: 37, 90, 231, 290, 291, 482, 605
Miami: 635
Middletown, CT: 318
Midjrecht: 296
Military intelligence
Military survey of the coast of North Carolina: 4
Mine Force, U.S. Atlantic Fleet: 249, 250
Mine Squadron One: 272
Minesweeping operations: 249, 250, 252
Mississippi: 348, p. 99, 406, 408, 411, 661
Mississippi River: p. 106, 440
Mississippi: 311
Mohican, USS: p. 113
Monaco: 585
Monrovia: 41
Monterey: 385
Moore, Como. Edwin W.: 605
Morales, Carlos: 289
Morgan Iron Works: 205
Morris, Como. Charles A.: p. 79, 357, 358, 633
Morris, Como. Richard: 208
Mowe: 296
Mugikara, Lt. Gen.: 301
Murmansk, Russia: 232
Murphy, Charles: 438
Murray, Comdr. Alexander: 38
Murray, Vice Adm. G.D.: 301
Muster rolls: 37, p. 28-29, 68, 69, 70, 77, 254, 454, 503, 520, 525, 541, p. 141, 651, 652, 653, 655, 671
Naples: 37
Naragansett: 389
Nassau. Bahama Islands: 186
Nassau-Siegen, Prince: 584
National Archives, and the Naval Records Collection: p. 2-3
National Intelligence: 580
National Society of the United States Daughters of 1812: 590
Nautical Almanac Office: 37, p. 102
Naval air stations
Naval Asylum: 3, 21, 24, 50, 306, 323, 472
Naval attachés: 24, 28, 29, p. 70-73
Naval aviation camps: 237
Naval Communication Service: p. 58
Naval constructors: 24, 63, 102, 105, 307 310, 311, 317, 332, 342, 451, 463, 480, 559, 560, 604
Naval Depot, Port Royal, SC: 73, 96, 97
Naval districts
Naval Documents Related to the Quasi-War Between the United States and France: 534
Naval Documents Related to the United States Wars With the Barbary Powers: Naval Operations Including Diplomatic Background from 1785 through 1807: 37, 534
Naval Examining Board for Officers Seeking Promotion: p. 93, 376, 377, 378
Naval Gun Foundry and Ordnance Works, Selma, AL: 646, 674
Naval Historical Foundation: p. 2
Naval History Division: p. 3
Naval hospitals: 21, 306, 307, 467, 471
Naval Inspector of Electric Lighting: 415
Naval Judge Advocate General: 44, p. 50, 185
Naval Overseas Transportation Service (NOTS): p. 57-58, 222, 224, 226, 272
Naval personnel
Naval prisons: 187
Naval Records Collection
Naval School. See U.S. Naval Academy.
Naval Solicitor: p. 50
Naval stations
Naval storekeepers: 47, 102, 105, 106, 108, 144, 310, 359, 458, 465, 472, 562, 564, 569, 570, 571
Naval Transportation Service: p. 58
Naval vessels
Naval vessels, British: 259, 278, 328
Naval vessels, Confederate: 501, 503, 542
Naval vessels, European: 37
Naval vessels, Japanese: 295
Naval War College: p. 110
Navy Consulting Board: 520
Navy Department
Navy Foundation: 533
Navy officers
Navy Pension Fund: 534
Navy Register: 209
Navy regulations: p. 27, 66, 67
Navy yards
Navy yards (installations)
Nelson, Horatio Lord: 587
New Castle, DE: 318
New England Historical and Gennealogical Register: 523
New Orleans, LA: 190, 195, 318, 482
New Orleans, Battle of: 39, 591
New York, NY: 179, 190, 195, 328, 355, 450, 576, 607
New York Times: 94
Newcomb, Simon: 380
Newell, Thomas M.: 329
Newport, RI: 318
Newport, RI, Torpedo Station: 51, 98, p. 110, 461
Newton, Gordon M.: 607
Niblack, Lt. Albert P.: 280
Nicaria: 601
Nicholson, Capt. Samuel: 9, p. 104
Nipsic, USS: 638
North Pacific Exploring Expedition: 397
Nova Scotia: 186
Oaths of allegiance: 120, 122, 123, 125, 131, 175, 187, 188
Oaths of office: 47, 102, 120, 121
Oconee: 664
Office of Library and Naval War Records, administrative history: p. 1, p. 141
Office of Naval History: p. 3
Office of Naval Intelligence: p. 1 p. 2 p. 3 p. 57 p. 58 231 254 255 p. 70-73 277 281 299 517 520
Office of Naval Recrods and Library: p. 58
Office of the Accountant of the Navy: p. 32, 79
Office of the Assistant for Operations: p. 57
Office of the Auditor for the Navy Department: p. 32
Office of the Chief of Naval Operations: p. 57-58, 254, 522
Office of the Commissioner of Pensions: 21
Office of the Purveyor of Public Supplies: 13, 567, 568
Office of the Solicitor: p. 50
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion: 51, 167, 500, 530, 535, 536, 537, 538, 539, 542, 543, 544, 545, 603, p. 141
Olcott, Col. Henry S.: p. 50, 200, 201, 202
Old Mill Prison, England: 523
Old Point Comfort, VA: 358
Oldenwald: 296
Operational Archives: p. 3
Orpheus, HMS: 581
Pacific: 52
Pacific exploring expedition: 308, 316, 330, 393, 633. See also Wilkes expedition.
Pacific Ocean, cruises to: 71
Pacific Station: 45
Page, Lt. Thomas J.: 37
Paine, Lt. John S.: 14
Pallas: 555
Paquete de Arecibo: 596
Paris, naval attachés in: 29, p. 70
Parks, Gorham: 52
Parole oaths: 187
Passports, correspondence concerning: 11
Patrick Henry, CSS: p. 141
Patuxent River: 14
Paulding, James K.: p. 79
Payrolls: p. 28-29, 68, 69, 70, 77, 525, 541, 631, p. 141, 651, 652, 653, 654, 655, 656
Paz: 596
Peacock: 628
Pearl: 198
Peking: 213
Penobscot expedition: 548, 556
Pensacola: 601
Pension claims
Permanent Commission on Science and Art: 57, p. 90, p. 91, 363, 364, 365, 366
Perry, Commodore Matthew C.: 45, 319, 394, 611
Perry, USS: p. 104-05
Personnel records: p. 36
Peru: 318
Petrel: 289
Pevensey, HMS: 581
Philadelphia, PA: 21, 179, 190, 195, 328, 355
Philadelphia, USS: 332
Philippine Insurrection: 28
Philippine Islands: 318, 509, 597, 599, 600
Phoenix: 389
Pirates: 39
Pittsburgh, PA: 328
Pittsburgh: 635
Planet: 296
Poland: 593
Polly: 609
Pook, Samuel M.: p. 90
Porpoise, U.S. Brig: 397, p. 113
Port Arthur, TX: 283
Port Mahon, Spain: 318
Porter, Comdr. David D.: 671
Porter, Commodore William D.: 182
Portsmouth, NE: 318
Portsmouth, NH: 355
Portsmouth, USS: p. 113
Potemkin, Prince: 584
Potomac River: p. 114
Potts, Richard C.: 611
Preble, Como. Edward: 208
Preble, Como. George H.: 413
Preble, USS: p. 113
President of the Senate, correspondence with the Secretary of the Navy: 10, 29
President of the United States
Princess Royal, USS: 622
Princeton: 288
Princeton, USS: p. 104
Prinz Eiter friedrich: 296
Prison ships: 489
Prionsers at Navy yards: 51
Privateers: 609
Prize cases: 192, 193, 196, 197, 198, 548, 553, 587
Prize commissioners: 187, 195, 445
Prize vessels: 23, 41, 44, 54, 181, 190, 450, 475
Procurement
Promotions
Puerto Rico: 596
Puget Sound: 38
Pulaski: 628
Pursers: 571
Radford, Rear Adm. William: 623
Raleigh, CSS: 666
Ramsay, James G.: 648
Ranger: 582
Recruiting rendezvous: 39, p. 36, 179, 448
Red Cross: 522
Relic of the Revolution, A, by Charles Herbert: 523
Remey, Comdr. George C.: 461, p. 113, 611
Resolute: 664
Retirement boards
Revenge: 609
Revere, Lt. Col. Paul: 556
Review boards: 24
Reynaud, Leonce: 639
Reynolds, J.N.: 393
Rhaetia: 594
Rhode Island Historical Society: 550
Richmond, VA: 655
Ridgely, Como. Charles G.: 357
Ringgold, Comdr. Cadwallader: 397
Ringgold Expedition: 166
Rio Bravo, USS: 482
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 52, 318
Riverboats used for defense: 46
Roach, John: 205
Roanoke, USS: 618
Rodgers, Lt. Comdr. C.RF. Perry: 603
Rodgers, Adm. John: 208, p. 79, 357, 360, 370, 382, 397
Roebuck, HMS: 581
Rogers, Brig. Gen. F.O.: 301
Rolando, Lt. Henry: 397
Roosevelt, Theodore: 211
Rum ration: 183
Russell, Adm. Edward: 578
Russia: 38, 213, 214, 223, 231, 299, 517
Russian Navy: 584
Russo-Japanese War: 283
"S.O.S." messages: 300
Sabine River: 9
Sabine: 635
Sacramento: 52
St. Augustine, FL: 195
St. Jamese Chronicle: 580
St. Mary's Isle, Scotland: 582
St. Thomas: 614
St. Vincent, Earl of: 587
Sallie: 659
Saltonstall, Capt. Dudley: 556
Sampson, Rear Adm. William T.: 28, 60, 613
San Diego, CA: 237
San Francisco, CA: 415
San Juan, PR, Station: 417
Sandy Hook Bay, NJ: 394
Santa Brigida: 587
Santo Domingo: 60, 231. See also Dominican Republic.
Sapello Island, CA 346
Sargent, Lt. Nathan: 275, 276, 277, 461, 611
Savannah, CSS: 389, 655, 664, 667, 669
Saxton, Joseph: p. 91
Schmitz, Comdr. Charles F.: p. 113
Schumacher, Heinrich Christian: 589
Scientific expeditions: 40
Scientific instruments: 321, 322
Scientists: 396
Scoresby, Capt. William, Sr.: 581
Scott, J.F.R.: 636
Secretary of State
Secretary of the Navy
Secretary of War, correspondence with the Secretary of the Navy: 4, 7, 14, 20, 44
Selfridge, Como. T.O.: 376
Selkirk, Earl of: 582
Seminole Wars: 61 See also Florida Indian Wars.
Semmes, Rear Adm. Raphael: 662
Senate Committee on Claims: 10
Senate Committee on Finance: 10
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations: 10
Senate Committee on Naval Affairs: 10, 42, 89
Senate Committee on the Conduct of the War: 10
Shanghai: 292
Shark: p. 114
Shaw, Thomas: 548
Ship Movements Section: p. 57, 215-28
Shipbuilders, correspondence with: 12, 557
Shipbuilding program: 29
Ships
Shipyards, European: 37
Shore establishments. See also Naval stations; Navy yards.
Shreveport, LA: 647
Shubrick, Como. William B.: 55, 319, 358, p. 90, 361, 367
Sicard, Rear Adm. Montogmery: 60
Sicily: 585
Sierra Leone: 41
Sigsbee, Capt. Charles: 60
Sims, Adm. William S.: p. 2, 212, 213
Sinclair, Capt. Arthur: 611
Sitka, AK: 38
Skinner, Charles W.: 159
Slave trade
Slaves
Slye, Robert: 320
Smalls, Robert: 94
Smith, Erastus W.: 320
Soley, James Russell: p. 1
Somers: 389
Sonsoral Island: 301
Sophia, HMS: 581
Sotheron, Capt. Frank: 585
Sound detection devices: 30
South Atlantic, Confederate agents in: 44
South Carolina: 329
South Carolina: 609
South Pacific Expedition: 393. See also Wilkes expedition.
South Seas exploring expedition: 316, See also Wilkes expedition.
Southampton, USS: p. 104-05
Southern ports, blockade of during the Civil War: 23
Spain: 318
Spanish-American War: 28, 60, p. 92, 372, 373
Spanish fleet: 60
Speaker of the House of Representatives: 10
Spitsbergen: 581
Squadrons
Squires, Lewis M.: 397
State, U.S. Department of, correspondence with the Secretary of the Navy: 11
Steel Inspection Board: 385
Stembel, Comdr. R.N.: 442
Stevens, Lt. Henry K.: 397
Stewart, Como. Charles: 357
Stokholm, Sweden: 214
Stoddert, Benjamin: p. 1
Stringham, Commodore Silas: p. 36
Stuart, Charles B.: 48
Submarines: 65, 252, 261, 362, 520, 602
Sumner: 594
Sun Yat-sen: 292
Superintendent, Naval War Records: p. 1, p. 2
Supernumeraries
Surprise, HMS: 581
Surrender documents, Japanese in World War II: 301
Susquehanna River: 472
Switzerland: 299
Tacoma: 288
Tacony: 609
Talofa, USS: 233
Tampico, Mexico: 291
Taylor, Charles: 622
Taylor, Fitch W.: 611
Telegraph systems: 417
Telegraphic dictionaries: 388
Tennessee: 660
Texas: 385
Texas Navy: 605
Thomas, Abraham: 329
Thorne, Lt. Jonathan: p. 107
Tientsin, China: 520
Timber agents: 102, 105, 106, 310, 329, 331, 346, 348, p. 99, 399, 400, 401, 402, 403, 404, 405, 410, 411
Timber contracts: 13, 306, 310, 314, 317, 326, 328, 336, 341, 342, 390, 607
Timber preservation: 412
Timber reservations: p. 99, 399, 401, 402, 403, 404, 405, 406, 407, 408, 409
Tingey, Comdt. Thomas: 11, 12, 13, 491
Tobi Island: 301
Torpedoes: 645
Torrington, Viscount: 578
Tower, Brig. Gen. Z.B.: 368
Towers, Lt. John H.: 237
Treasury, U.S. Department of the
Trenton: USS: 430
Tribou, David Howard: 611
Tribute payments to the Dey of Algiers: 11
Trilley, Joseph: 430
Tripoli, war with: 3, 37, 38. See also Barbary Wars.
Triumph: 269
Truk Atoll: 301
Truxton, Capt. Thomas: p. 28
Truxton 389
Tucker, Benjamin: 587
Tunis: 612
Tuscumbia, USS: 631
Tuxpam, Mexico: 291
U-20: 602
U-117: 269
U-140: 269
U-151: 269
U-152: 269
U-155: 269
U-156: 269
Under Secretary of the Navy, list of: p. 5
Uniforms: 48, 66, 67, 446, 667
Union, USS: p. 104-05
Union Iron Works: 415
United States, USS: 455
U.S. Arsenal, Philadelphia, PA: 563
U.S. attorneys and prize cases: 190, 450
U.S. Coast Guard
U.S. Coast Survey: 540
U.S. Congress
U.S. district attorneys: 17, 41, 404
U.S. District Courts
U.S. House of Representativs resolutions: 42
U.S. Iron Clads in Ordnance: 443
U.S. Naval Academy: 46, p. 97, 395, p. 114
U.S. Naval Air Detachment, Akron, OH: 240
U.S. Naval Air Detachment, Lak Bolsena, Italy: 239
U.S. Naval Air Station, Brest, France: 242, 272
U.S. Naval Air Station, Lough Foyle, Ireland: 236, 272
U.S. Naval Base, Bordeaux, France: 236
U.S. Naval Coal Agency: 442
U.S. Naval Force on Asiatic Station: 627, 643
U.S. Naval Forces in France: 245
U.S. Naval Forces in the Rio Grande: 482
U.S. Naval Forces North Atlantic: 23
U.S. Naval Forces Operating in European Waters: 272
U.S. Naval Forces Pacific: 23
U.S. Naval Observatory: 36, 37, 58, 98, p. 94, 381, 382, p. 97, 395, 396, p. 102, 488
U.S. Naval Ordnance Depot: 443
U.S. Naval Radio Service: p. 57, p. 58, 232
U.S. Naval School: p. 114
U.S. Naval Station, Kilingholme, England: 236
U.S. Navy
U.S. Revenue Cutter Service: 540
U.S. Sanitary Commission: 450
U.S. Senate
U.S. Shipping Board: 57, 222, 224, 265, 522
Upton, Francis H.: 197
Valparaiso, Chile: 318
Veeder, John P.: 202
Vengeance: 555
Ventura: 596
Vera Cruz, Mexico: 291
Vessel collissions: 30
Vincennes, U.S. Flagship: 397, 628
Virginia: 500
Volunteer offices: p. 36, 108, 112, 114, 116, 131, 132, 135, 145, 150, 154, 164, 165, 166, 526, 620, 621
Wabash: 635
Wadsworth, Capt, Alexander: 319
War Archives of the German Navy: 602
War Department
War Department Collection of Confederate Records: 537
War Department Telegraph Office: 27
War diaries, World War I: 254, 255, 256, 520
War games: 374
War mobilization plans, World War I: 29
War of 1812
War Plans Division: 251, 252, 253
War with Mexico: 23
Ward, Midshipman William: 321
Ware, Thomas R.: 645
Warrington, Capt. Lewis: p. 79, 349, p. 110
Washington, DC: 14, 190, 195, 237, 328, 355, p. 94, 381, 382, 488, 491
Washington Evening Star: 580
Washington Monument: 51
Wasp: p. 114
Wave: 389
Welles, Gideon: 93
Wells, Thomas F.: 398
Wells and Gowen diving equipment: 398
Whaling industry: 393
Wharton, B.H.: 430
Wheelrights: 495
Whelen, Israel: 11
Whitehaven, England: 582
Wilkes, Capt. Charles: 308, 316, 321, p. 90. See also Wilkes expedition.
Wilkes expedition: 43
Wilkinson, Gen. James: 9
Williamson, Lt. Gabriel Galt: 611
Wilson, John A.: 661
Wilson, Theodore D.: 414
Wilson, Woodrow: 234
Winslow, Capt. John A.: 54
Witzleben, Arthur: 397
Wolfe, HMS: 581
Worcester, USS: 631
World War I
World War II
Xylon: 52
Yarrow, H.C.: 589
Yorktown, USS: p. 104-05, 288, 289
Young Rover: 621
Yucatan: 605
Yugoslavia: 212
Zrinyi: 593
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