James Russell Soley, Professor U. S. Navy, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, The blockade and the cruisers
Clement Anselm Evans, Ed.

[14] Eight others, including the five frigates, were laid up in ordinary. There remained twenty-four steamers, whose disposition on the 4th of March was as follows: ***

Class.	Name.	Station.
One screw-frigate	Niagara	Returning from Japan.
Five screw-sloops (1st class).	San Jacinto	Coast of Africa.
	Lancaster	Pacific.
	Brooklyn	Home Squadron (Pensacola).
	Hartford	East Indies.
	Richmond	Mediterranean.
Three side-wheel steamers	Susquehanna.	Mediterranean.
	Powhatan	Home Squadron (returning from VeraCruz).
	Saranac	Pacific.
Eight screw-sloops (2d class).	Mohican	Coast of Africa.
	Narragansett	Pacific.
	Iroquois	Mediterranean.
	Pawnee	Washington.
	Wyoming	Pacific.
	Dacotah	East Indies.
	Pocahontas	Home Squadron (returning from. VeraCruz).
	Seminole	Coast of Brazil.
Five screw steamers (3d class)	Wyandotte	Home Squadron (Pensacola).
	Mohawk	New York.
	Crusader	New York.
	Sumter	Coast of Africa.
	Mystic	Coast of Africa.
Two side-wheel steamers	Pulaski	Brazil.
	Saginaw	East Indies.

It will be observed that of the twelve vessels composing the Home Squadron, seven were steamers; and of these only three, the Pawnee, Mohawk, and Crusader, were in northern ports and at the immediate disposal of the new administration. The best part of the fleet was scattered all over the world.

In the matter of ordnance, as in ships, the navy had been making active progress. In the old sailing vessels, the