buried at Newport, R. I., _ib._ _Pert_, American schooner, ii. 270. _Perthshire_, British merchantman, captured off Mobile, iv. 43; released by the _Niagara_, _ib._; claims compensation, 44. _Petrel_, American schooner, in attack on Alvarado, iii. 410. _Petrel_, Confederate privateer, iv. 93; chases the _St. Lawrence_, which fires into and sinks her, 94. Phelps, Captain S. S., appointed to command of the _Conestoga_, iv. 251; convoys General Grant down the Mississippi, _ib._; captures the Confederate steamer _Eastport_, 267; takes command of her, _ib._; before Fort Pillow, 290; Lieutenant-commander of the _Eastport_, 369. _Philadelphia_, American gondola, i. 90; on Lake Champlain, 100. _Philadelphia_, American frigate, sent to Tripoli, i. 335; sunk on a reef, 343; raised by the Tripolitans, 344; boarded and fired by Decatur, 349–358. _Phœbe_, British frigate, attempts to attack the _Essex_, iii. 25, 26; is scared off, _ib._; with the _Cherub_ makes another attack on the _Essex_, 30–43. Pico Andres, Mexican Governor of Los Angeles, iii. 397; breaks his parole, _ib._ _Picton_, British war-schooner, captured by the _Constitution_, iii. 242. Pike, Zebulon M., explorer, at storming of Toronto, ii. 341; killed by the explosion of a magazine, 342. _Pinola_, Federal screw gun-boat, iv. 316. Piracy discoveries at Cape Cruz, South America, iii. 335. Pirate caves with the bones of dead in them, iii. 324, 325. Piratical assaults on Yankee traders, iii. 366. Pitcairn, Major, at Lexington, i. 14. Pitchforks used by haymakers in their attack on the _Margaretta_, i. 21. _Pittsburg_, armor-plated Federal gun-boat, built by Eads, iv. 245; Captain Egbert Thompson commands, 290; before Vicksburg, 363, 370. Pittsburg Landing, fight at, iv. 284. _Plantagenet_, British liner, assists in the attack on the _General Armstrong_, iii. 188, 194, 196–198. _Planter_, Confederate transport, turned over to the Federals by Robert Small, a negro slave, iv. 501, 502. Plattsburg Bay, operations of Macdonough in, iii. 145, 150. “Playing ball with the red coats,” ii. 268. _Plunger_, Holland submarine boat, iv. 545. Po Adam, Malay chief, rescues Captain Endicott, iii. 370; aids Captain Downes in his attack on Quallah Battoo, 374. _Pocahontas_, Federal frigate, iv. 163. _Poictiers_, British frigate, recaptures the _Frolic_ from the _Wasp_, ii. 118. _Policy_, British whaler, captured by Porter, iii. 8. _Polk_, Confederate gun-boat, iv. 127. _Polly_, American privateer, attacks the English sloop-of-war _Indian_, ii. 242. _Pomone_, British frigate, assists in the capture of the _President_, iii. 222.