_Florida_, Confederate cruiser built at Liverpool, iv. 416; her first voyages, 417; Captain John Newland Maffitt appointed to command of, 418; is fired at by Captain Preble of the _Winona_, 419; escapes, _ib._; blockaded by the _Cuyler_, 420; runs the blockade, 423; Captain Charles M. Morris appointed to command of, 424; rammed by the _Wachusett_ and taken to the United States, _ib._; scuttled at Newport News, 429. _Fly_, schooner of first American Navy, i. 40. Foote, Admiral Andrew Hull, Lieutenant on the American brig _Perry_, sent to Africa to assist in putting down the slave traffic, iii. 363; his sincere desire to stop the traffic, 364; captures the slave-ships _Martha_ and _Chatsworth_, 364–366; the “original prohibitionist of the navy,” 367; is sent to Canton to protect American interests, 380; is fired on by the Chinese forts, _ib._; bombards and captures the forts, 380, 381; relieves Commander John Rodgers of his command on the Mississippi, iv. 250; assembles a fleet at Paducah, 255; inspects the crews, 256; seeming insolence of Captain Walke to, 266; joins the expedition to Fort Donelson, 268; is seriously wounded, 271; again, 272; is relieved by Captain Charles H. Davis, 289. _Forest Queen_, Federal army transport, in Porter’s fleet before Vicksburg, iv. 364. Fort Beauregard, on Bay Point, Charleston, S. C., Confederate fort at Port Royal, iv. 169, 467. Fort Donelson, strength of, iv. 268; arrival of the _Carondelet_, _ib._; the _St. Louis_, _Louisville_, and _Pittsburg_ arrive before, 271; all three ships disabled, _ib._; the fleet at a disadvantage, 272; surrendered to General Grant, _ib._ Fort Erie, the Coney Island of Buffalo, ii. 273. 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.