_Albemarle_, Confederate ram, Captain Maffitt ordered to take charge of, 266; paper by Captain Maffitt on building of, 202. _Albert_, U.S.S., 26. Alexander, Captain, Confederate States Signal Corps, 191. Allingham, William, quoted, 2-14. _Alma Cumming_, derelict merchant ship, 8. _Alonzo_, blockade runner, ix. _Amalco_, U.S.S., log of gives last information concerning U.S.S. _Cyclops_, 28, 29. _Antonica_,[7] derelict blockade runner, 107-109. _Arabian_, derelict blockade runner, 90. _Aries_, U.S.S. blockader, 98, 99, 104. _Arizona_, steamship, damage to, 35. _Atlantic_, blockade runner, change of name, 61. _Badger_, derelict blockade runner, 102, 109, 110. Badham, Captain, Confederate service, 59. Bahnson, Captain, Confederate service, 59. Bald Head, wrecks near, 58. _Banshee_, derelict blockade runner, first steel vessel to cross Atlantic, 66, 83, 85, 160. _Banshee_, Number 2, blockade runner, 127. _Bat_, blockade runner, 102. Beaufort, N.C., held by Federals, 93, 226. Beery, Benjamin, 168. _Bendigo_, derelict blockade runner, 105, 106. _Bergitte_, derelict merchant ship, 7. Bermuda, Federal spies in, 276. Bertholf, Commodore E.P., letter by, 18-20. Bier, Capt. George H., blockade runner Dee, 81. Blake, Capt. Eugene, jr., U.S.S. _Seminole_, official report by, 42-47. Blockade, Federal, effectiveness of, xii. Blockaders, names of: _Aries_, 98, 99, 104; _Boston_, 203; _Cambridge_, 60, 81; _Cherokee_, 133; _Connecticut_, 103, 104; _Daylight_, 98, 99, 106; _Fahkee_, 106; _Florida_, 54, 55, 56, 76, 252; _Fort Jackson_, 103, 106; _Gettysburg_, 203; _Glaucus_, ix; _Governor Buckingham_, 98, 99, 107; _Howquah_, 79; _Iron Age_, 87, 106; _James Adger_, 195; _Keystone State_, ix, 99, 134, 198, 203; _Minnesota_, 91; _Montgomery_, 104, 106; _Nansemond_, 62, 80, 85, 86; _New Berne_, 133, 139, 142; _Niphon_, 84, 86, 90, 91, 137, 138, 143; _Penobscot_, 119; _Quaker City_, 99, 102, 133; _Sassacus_, 82, 83; _Shenandoah_, 94, 141; _Shokokon_, 91; _Stars and Stripes_, 60; _Tuscarora_, 79, 99; stations of, 57, 224. Blockade runners, advantages of Wilmington, N.C., as port for, 94, 223; cargoes of, 52, 53, 58, 59, 60, 61, 66, 80, 81, 82, 83, 87, 103, 108, 118, 133, 138, 141, 144, 148, 170, 173, 219; Halifax, N.S., rendezvous of blockade runners escaping from Federal prisons, 38; losses through destruction of, 52; number of (1863), 88, 89; number of wrecks on Cape Fear coast of, 51-152; type of construction of, 87, 105, 106, 107, 120, 130, 131, 265, 266.