_Joseph_, British ship, captured by the _Surprise_, i. 124. _Joseph H. Toone_, Federal schooner, iv. 129. _Joseph Maxwell_, Federal merchant-ship, captured by Confederate cruiser _Sumter_, iv. 415. _Joseph Parke_, Federal merchant-ship, captured by Confederate cruiser _Sumter_, iv. 415. Jouett, Lieutenant James E., cuts out the _Royal Yacht_ from Galveston Harbor, iv. 138, 139; Lieutenant-commander of the _Metacomet_, 386. _Judah_, Confederate privateer schooner, destroyed at Fort Pickens, iv. 120. _Julia_, American schooner, ii. 268; captured by the British, 351. _Junon_, British frigate, becalmed in Hampton Roads, attacked by gun-boats, ii. 395; chases the _Constitution_ off Cape Ann, iii. 244. _J. W. Hewes_, merchant-ship, captured by Confederate privateers, iv. 97. _Katahdin_, Federal screw gun-boat, iv. 315. Kearny, Sailing-master Lawrence, attacks a party from the frigate _Hebrus_, ii. 420; captures the tender of the frigate _Severn_, 421. Kearny, Brigadier-general Stephen W., goes to the assistance of Commodore Stockton in Mexico, iii. 398; is repulsed and wounded, _ib._; marches to San Diego, _ib._ _Kearsarge_, American sloop-of-war, built, iv. 38. _Kearsarge_, Federal armored frigate, meets the _Alabama_ in Cherbourg Harbor, France, iv. 436; comparison of their armament, 437; description of the fight, 438–441; the best gunnery of the Civil War, 441. _Kearsarge_ (new), United States battle-ship, iv. 534, 536. Kedge anchor, use of, on the _Essex_, ii. 49. Kedging, method of, described, ii. 58. _Kennebec_, Federal screw gun-boat, iv. 314; Lieutenant-commander William P. McCann, 389. Kennon, Captain Beverley, at New Orleans, iv. 321; attacks the _Varuna_, 334; surrenders, 335. Kentucky, western, railroad communication with the East cut off from, iv. 267. _Keokuk_, Federal monitor, at Charleston, iv. 483, 485. Kerr, Captain Robert, attacks the _Constitution_ at Porto Prayo, iii. 260. _Keystone State_, armed merchantman, attacked by the Confederate ironclad _Palmetto State_, iv. 474. Kidnapped sailors ill-fed and poorly paid on British ships, i. 387. Kilty, Captain A. H., before Fort Pillow, iv. 289; aids the _Cincinnati_, 294. _Kines_, Federal screw gun-boat, iv. 315, 358. Kingston, Canada, chief naval and military post in 1812, ii. 265; Commodore Chauncey attacks, 270. Kirkcaldy, Scotland, anecdote of the parson of, on the approach of Paul Jones’s squadron, i. 238. Koszta, Martin, an American citizen, taken by the Austrian authorities on board the war-ship _Hussar_, iii. 385. _Lackawanna_, Federal gun-boat, iv. 389. _Lady Gore_, British schooner, captured by Chauncey at Lake George, ii. 353.