ng vessels: Malvern (a river or bay steamer), the flag-ship; New Ironsides, Brooklyn, Mohican, Tacony, Kansas, Unadilla, Huron, Pequot, Yantic, Maumee, Pawtuxet, Pontoosuc, Nyack.
Ticonderoga, Shenandoah, Juniata, Powhatan, Susquehanna, Wabash, Colorado, Minnesota, Vanderbilt, Mackinaw, Tuscarora, Vicksburg, St. Jago de Cuba, Fort Jackson, Osceola, Sassacus, Chippewa, Maratanza, R. R. Cuyler, Rhode Island, Monticello, Alabama, Montgomery, Keystone State, Queen City, Iosco, Aries, Howquah, Wilderness, Cherokee, A. D. Vance, Moccasin, Eolus, Gettysburg, Emma, Lillian, Nansemond, Tristram Shandy, Britannia, Governor Buckingham, Saugus, Monadnock, Canonicus, Mahopac. Total, 58.
The last four were monitors.
On the evening of the 15th, the transports, with the troops, arrived at the prescribed rendezvous, about twenty-five miles at sea, east of Fort Fisher.
The ocean was perfectly calm, and remained so for three days, while the army was anxiously waiting for the navy; for the landing
son, 3.116; destructive raid of on Rosecrans's communications, 3.150.
Wheeling, Union convention at, 1.489.
White House, Va., McClellan's Headquarters at, 2.386; destruction of, 2.425.
White Oak Swamp Bridge, battle at, 2.429.
White River, capture of Confederate posts on, 2.582.
White Sulphur Springs, cavalry fight near, 3.112.
Wigfall, Senator, treasonable speeches of in the Senate, 1.81, 84.; at Fort Sumter, 1.327.
Wilcox, Richard, a loyal spy at Pensacola, 1.367.
Wilderness, battle of the, 3.298-3.303; visit of the author to the battle-field of the, 3.811.
Wilkes, Captain, Charles, his seizure of Mason and Slidell on the Trent, 2.154; his action approved by the Secretary of the Navy and by Congress, 2.156; President Lincoln's opinion, 2.156; English press on the conduct of, 2.158.
William Aikin, revenue cutter, surrendered to Charleston insurgents, 1.138.
Williamsburg, battle of, 2.379.
Williams, Gen., killed at battle of Baton Rouge, 2.529.
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