Fort Fisher, N. C., capture of, iv. 503–518; fortifications of, 505; General Butler’s plan of capture, 508–514; garrison of, 514. Fort Gaines shelled by Federal gun-boat _Chickasaw_, iv. 405. Fort George attacked by the Americans under Winfield Scott, ii. 342–344; Scott hauls down the British flag, 344. Fort Gregg, Charleston, S. C., iv. 467. Fort Henry, Tennessee River, Foote assembles a fleet at Paducah to attack, iv. 255; troops under Grant proceed up the river, _ib._; storm clears the river of torpedoes, 256; attacked by Foote’s fleet, 261–266; a victory for the gun-boats, 266; its importance to both armies, _ib._ _Fort Hindman_, Federal gun-boat, iv. 370. Fort Jackson, Confederate fortification on the Mississippi, iv. 318; bombardment of, 322–324; surrendered to Porter, 339. Fort Johnson, Charleston, S. C., iv. 467. Fort Morgan, iv. 385, 386, 389. Fort Moultrie, Charleston, S. C., iv. 467. Fort Pillow, Federal fleet advances to, iv. 289; evacuated by Confederates, 298. Fort Pinckney, Charleston, S. C., iv. 467. Fort Ripley, Charleston, S. C., iv. 467. Fort Sumter, five monitors open fire on, iv. 491; bombarded and reduced to a wreck, 493. Fort Wagner, Charleston, S. C., iv. 467, 469, 490. Fort Walker, on Hilton Head, Confederate fort at Port Royal, iv. 169. Fortress Monroe, the _Monitor_ retires to, after the fight with the _Merrimac_, iv. 226. _Forward_, American schooner, in attack on Alvarado, iii. 410. _Forward_, filibuster craft, cut out by Lieutenant Brownson of the United States frigate _Mohican_, iv. 553. Foster, Lieutenant-commander J. P., iv. 369. Foster, General John G., Captain Flusser appeals to him to go and burn the Confederate ironclad _Albemarle_, iv. 454. Fox, Augustus V., appointed assistant to Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy, iv. 35. _Fox_, Captain W. H. Cocke, iii. 333. Foxardo affair, the unfortunate, iii. 337, 338. France, United States Government abrogates all treaties with, July 7, 1798, i. 314. _Francis B. Ogden_, Ericsson’s model boat, attains speed of ten miles an hour, iv. 10; Captain Stockton makes a trip on, _ib._ Franklin sails for France on the _Reprisal_, i. 114. Franklin, Sir John, American expedition sent to search for the remains of, iii. 464. _Franklin_, American schooner, captures ten vessels and Governor Wright of St. John’s, i. 203; captures a quantity of war supplies, _ib._ _Freeborn_, Federal steamer, at Acquia Creek, iv. 81. “Free trade” before “sailors’ rights,” the motto of Washington politicians in 1812, ii. 18. _Freely_, Confederate privateer, iv. 93. Frémont, John C. (“the Pathfinder”), takes possession of San Diego, iii. 394; commands in the Mississippi Valley, iv. 241. French cruisers destroy American shipping, i. 314.