_Mound City_, armor-plated Federal gun-boat, built by Eads, iv. 245; Captain A. H. Kilty commands, 289; rammed by the _Van Dorn_, 294; Confederate shell bursts her boiler, 307; in Porter’s fleet before Vicksburg, 363; Lieutenant A. R. Langthorne commands, 370. Mowatt, Captain, attack of, on Portland, Maine, i. 24–26. _Muckie_, bombarded and burned by the American frigate _Columbia_, iii. 376–378. Mugford, Captain James, captures a transport with 1,500 barrels of powder, i. 203. Mullany, Commander J. R. M., iv. 389. Murphy, Lieutenant J. McLeod, iv. 363. _Murray_, British gun-boat, iii. 143. Murray, Captain Alexander, beats off two British gun-ships, i. 207. Murray, Colonel J., with 1,000 British troops assaults Plattsburg and Saranac, ii. 355; burns the public stores at both places and then retreats, _ib._ _Nahant_, Federal ironclad, Commander John Downes, iv. 480; at Charleston, 485. _Naiad_, Federal merchant-ship, captured by Confederate cruiser _Sumter_, 415. _Nancy_, English merchantman, captured by the _Raleigh_ and _Alfred_, i. 130. _Nancy_, British brigantine, captured by the _Lee_, i. 197–199. _Nantucket_, Federal ironclad, iv. 480. Napier on the character of the veterans sent to America, iii. 134. Napoleon III., Emperor of France, his views in regard to Texas and Mexico modified by the surrender of New Orleans, iv. 340; tries to persuade Texas to secede from the Confederacy, 368. _Narcissus_, British frigate, attacks the American schooner _Surveyor_, ii. 417. Narragansett Indian impressed by the British, a, iii. 293. _Nashville_, Confederate cruiser, blockaded in the Great Ogeechee River, iv. 479; attacked and burned by Captain Worden of the monitor _Montauk_, 480. Natchez, Tenn., surrenders to Captain Craven of the _Brooklyn_, iv. 340. National sea-power, curious chain of events that led to creation of, i. 1, 2. _Nautilus_, American cruiser, in the attack on Tripoli, i. 374. _Nautilus_, East India Company’s cruiser, surrenders to the _Peacock_, iii. 285. Naval architecture, a point on, iii. 227. Naval armament, means for furnishing United Colonies with, i. 35. Naval calls, iii. 471. Naval discipline, effect of, on raw recruits, iv. 250. Naval forces of the United States compared with those of Great Britain in 1812, ii. 21–23. Naval officers, old-time, life led by, iii. 305–307; American, work that they have had to do in out-of-the-way parts of the world in times of peace, 359–386; disloyalty of, at commencement of the Civil War, iv. 70. Naval operations in the Gulf of Mexico, iii. 402–428. Naval terms applied to war-ships, iii. 54. Navy, British, in American waters, i. 195. Navy, colonial, creation of a, i. 30. Navy of the United Colonies, regulations of, i. 34.