_Augusta_, armed merchantman, attacked by the Confederate ironclad _Palmetto State_, iv. 474. Aulick, Captain James, sent to Japan in 1851, iii. 443; recalled on false charges, _ib._ _Avon_, British brig-sloop, captured by the _Wasp_ (3), iii. 93–96. _Aylwin_, American gun-boat, iii. 141. Bache, Lieutenant G. M., iv. 369. Badajos, rapacity of English veterans in the streets of, iii. 134. _Bahama_, British merchant-ship, officers and crew of the _Alabama_ taken in the, to Terceira, iv. 431. Bahama Islands, a resort for contraband traders in the Civil War, iv. 48. Bahia, Brazil, Captain Bainbridge paroles his prisoners at, ii. 167, 175. Bailey, Lieutenant-colonel Joseph, saves Admiral Porter’s squadron, iv. 371–376; receives thanks of Congress, 376. Bailey, Captain Theodorus, at New Orleans, iv. 316; commands first division of Farragut’s squadron, 324; sent ashore to deliver Farragut’s letter, 338. Bainbridge, Captain William, i. 316; surrenders to the French frigate _Insurgent_, _ib._; Captain of the _Voluntaire_ refuses to accept his sword, _ib._; deceives the French officer, 317; sent to Tripoli in charge of the _Essex_, 335; chases a Tripolitan corsair, 341; loses his ship on a reef, 343; court-martialed, 344; a prisoner in Tripoli, 345; communicates with American fleet, 346; a shot penetrates his prison, 368; remonstrates with the Navy Department of Madison’s administration, ii. 26; cruising in Brazil, 152; fight with the British frigate _Java_, 153–173; wounded, 155; conducts his ship while his wounds are being dressed, 156; paroles 378 of the _Java’s_ crew, 167; blows up the _Java_, 173; his dream realized, 172, 173; his character illustrated, 177; insulted at Barcelona, iii. 311–313. Bainbridge, Midshipman Joseph, his duel with the Secretary of Sir Alexander Ball, iii. 307–311; captures a Carthaginian privateer, iii. 65; attacked and captured by the _Orpheus_ and _Shelburne_, 65, 66. Baker, Captain Thomas H., iv. 89. Baldwin, Lieutenant, i. 66. Ball, Sir Alexander, iii. 307. _Ballard_, American gun-boat, iii. 141. Ballard, Midshipman Edward J., ii. 206. _Baltimore_, American frigate, five men of the, impressed in the British service, 401. Bankhead, Captain J. P., at Port Royal, iv. 163. Banks, General Nathaniel Prentiss, sent on expedition to Shreveport, La., iv. 368. _Banshee_, the first steel blockade-runner, iv. 57. Barbary pirates encouraged by England, i. 307; war with, 333, 334. _Barclay_, British whaler, captured by Porter, iii. 8.