is suspended and resigns his commission, _ib._ Porter, Commander David D., his idea of attacking New Orleans, iv. 313; finds New Orleans fishermen good spies, _ib._; arranges the expedition, _ib._; commands the mortar fleet up the Mississippi River, 325; placed in charge of the Mississippi squadron, 349; tin-clads added to his squadron, _ib._; tries to get in behind Vicksburg, 358; is unsuccessful, 363; attacks the fortifications of Grand Gulf, 367; sent with General Banks’s expedition to Shreveport, La., 369; arrives at Alexandria, 370; captures the _Abby Bradford_ from the _Sumter_, 413; disagreement with General Butler at Fort Fisher, 508. Porter, Captain John, in command of the _Greyhound_ in South America, iii. 333. Porter, Confederate Navy Constructor J. L., assists in making the working drawings for the _Merrimac_, iv. 185. Porter, Captain William D., iv. 249; in Commodore Foote’s fleet, 255; severely scalded, 265. Portland, Maine, atrocities of the British at, i. 24–26, 32; influence of atrocities, 196. _Port Royal_, Federal gun-boat, iv. 389; capture of, 162–182. _Portsmouth_, American frigate, in the bombardment of Chinese forts, iii. 380–382. _Potomac_, American frigate, attacks and punishes the Malays at Quallah Battoo, iii. 373–375. _Powhatan_, Federal frigate, captures the _Abby Bradford_ from the _Sumter_, iv. 413. _Preble_, American sloop. See _Rising Sun_. Preble, Captain Edward, i. 26; in command of the _Constitution_, 346; attacks the city of Tripoli, 359; Congress gives him a gold medal, 378. Preble, Lieutenant George H., iv. 315. _President_, American frigate, built, i. 312; sent to Tripoli, 335; encounters and is fired on by the corvette _Little Belt_, ii. 7; Captain John Rodgers sent to look for the _Guerrière_, 8; chases the British frigate _Belvidera_, 29–32; the frigate escapes, 32; mentioned, 121; chases the _Nymphe_, 151; chases the _Curlew_, 358; a lieutenant of the _President_ boards the _Highflyer_, _ib._; special efforts ordered to capture the _President_, 359; termed “The Waggon” by the British, 360; Decatur transferred to, iii. 212; attacked by the British fleet, 216; surrenders, 222; is carried to the Bermudas, 226; her dimensions, 227. Press-gang riots in Boston, i. 395, 397. Press-gangs, raised in England, i. 156; methods of the, 386, 387; number of Americans enslaved by the, ii. 2–4. Prevost, Sir George, attacks Sackett’s Harbor, ii. 345; mistakes trees for troops, 346; in command of “Wellington’s Invincibles” at Plattsburg, iii. 147; defeated, 169, 170; dies of chagrin, 183. _Price_, Confederate gun-boat, rams the _Cincinnati_, iv. 293; disabled by the _Carondelet_, 294.