Derelicts, accounts of, 1-17; drift of, 5, 7, 8, 13, 16, 17; failure to destroy, 1, 2; fictitious accounts of, 11-13; life of, 4, 5, 6, 8; number of, 3, 4; United States destruction of asked by international agreement, 18, 19. DeRosset, Doctor, 62. DeRosset, Mrs. A.J., work for convalescent soldiers by, 229. Deserters, condition of, 175; treatment of, 230, 231. Devens, Lieut. Edward F., U.S.S. _Aries_, official report by, 100, 101. Diamond Shoals, buoy at, 43. _Dispatch_, blockade runner, 66. Doggett, Lieutenant, Confederate States Signal Corps, 192. _Don_, derelict blockade runner, 81, 164, 177. _Douro_, derelict blockade runner, 62, 79, 80, 87, 90. _Doyle_, Capt. Austin, British steamer _Korona_, 47. _Drisko_, derelict merchant ship, 14. _Duncow_, derelict merchant ship, 6. _Ella_, derelict blockade runner, 57-59. _Ella and Annie_, blockade runner, capture of, 136, 137, 143; named changed, 137. _Elizabeth_, derelict blockade runner, 61, 62, 106. _Emily of London_, derelict blockade runner, 55, 56. _Emily St. Pierre_, British ship, account of, 250-262. _Etruria_, steamship, swept by tidal wave, 36. _Eugénie_, blockade runner, ix, 240, 241. Everson, Acting Master, U.S.S. _Victoria_, official report by, 64-66. _Fahkee_, U.S.S. blockader, 106. _Falcon_, blockade runner, 131. _Falls of Afton_, derelict merchant ship, 6. _Fannie and Jessie_, derelict blockade runner, 53-55, 56. _Fannie E. Wolston_, derelict merchant ship, 16, 17. Fayetteville, N.C., making of arms and ammunition at, 169. Fisher, Fort, 54, 57, 60, 61, 68, 74, 78, 80, 83, 91, 92, 93, 95, 97, 112, 114, 120, 141, 157, 161, 162, 173, 174, 175, 192, 209, 224, 231, 263, 266. _Flamingo_, blockade runner, 131. _Flora_, blockade runner, 196. _Florida_, U.S.S., blockader, 54, 55, 56, 76, 252. _Florida_, Confederate ship, captured by U.S.S. _Wachusetts_, 278; cruise of, 202, 277; failure of Commander Preble to capture, 205-208; formerly _Oreto_, 215; meets _Lilian_ on high seas, 277, 278; remarkable escape into Mobile Bay, 205-207. _Florie_, derelict blockade runner, 109. _Fort Jackson_, U.S.S., blockader, 103, 106. Forts, see Camp Brown, Caswell, Fisher, Mount Tirza, St. Philip. Foster, Capt. James, U.S.S. _James Adger_, 195. Fraser, Trenholm & Company, owners of _Emily St. Pierre_, 251. Fry, Capt. Joseph, in command of _Agnes E. Fry_, 241; _Eugénie_, 240; Confederate gunboat _Morgan_, 241; _Virginius_, 241; sketch of life and death of, 239-244. Frying Pan Shoals, buoy at, 46; wrecks near, 107, 108. Gale, Captain, blockade runner _Lady Davis_, 194, 195. _General Beauregard_, derelict blockade runner, 78, 79. _Georgiana McCaw_, derelict blockade runner, 62-66.