, 177

Warley, Lieutenant A.F., commands the Enoch Train, 5, 61, 84 (note)

Warner, the, 209 et seq.

Water Witch, the, steamer, 5, 7

Watson, captain, 201

Watters, Lieutenant-Commander John, 134, 183

Weaver, Lieutenant-Commander, 183

Webb, the, Confederate gunboat, 128 et seq., 217

Welles, Secretary of Navy, 88

Wells, Lieutenant-Commander Clark H., 229

Westfield, the, U.S. gunboat, 55 et seq., 95, 108

Wharton, General, 181

Wharton, Lieutenant, 231

Wheeler, General, 181

Williams, General, at Baton Rouge 104 et seq.

Wilson, Charles, 33

Wilson, Lieutenant Byron, of the Mound City, 147, 155, 191

Wilson, Lieutenant-Colonel James H., 142 et seq.

Winona, the, U.S. gunboat, 54, 77, 80, 95, 183

Winnebago, the, 220 et seq., 229, 232, 234, 238, 242 et seq., 247

Winslow, Lieutenant Francis, holds his ground in Water Witch, 7

Wisconsin, regiment of: Fourth, 204

Wissahickon, the, U.S. gunboat, 54, 73, 76, 85, 90, 95

Woods, Colonel, 107

Woodworth, Lieutenant Selim E., 56, 155 et seq.

Woolsey, Commander, 183

Yankee, the, Confederate gunboat, 18

Yazoo Valley, description of, 115 et seq., 141 et seq.

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=THE NAVY IN THE CIVIL WAR.=

The work of the Navy in the Suppression of the Rebellion was certainly
not less remarkable then that of the Army. The same forces which
developed from our volunteers some of the finest bodies of soldiers in
military history, were shown quite as wonderfully in the quick
growth--almost creation--of a Navy, which was to cope, for the first
time, with the problems of modern warfare. The facts that the Civil
War was the first great conflict in which steam was the motive power
of ships; that it was marked by the introduction of the ironclad; and
that it saw, for the first time, the attempt to blockade such a vast
length of hostile coast--will make it an epoch for the technical
student everywhere. For Americans, whose traditions of powers at sea
are among their strongest, this side of the four years struggle has an
interest fully equal to the other--perhaps even with the added element
of romance that always belongs to sea fighting.

But while the Army has been fortunate in the number and character of
those who have contributed to its written history, the Navy has been
comparatively without annalists. During a recent course of
publications on the military operations of the war, the publishers
were in co