_Tartarus_, English brig-sloop, iii. 93. Tattnall, Commodore Josiah, takes part in the English attack on Chinese forts, iii. 382; attacks the Castle of San Juan de Ulloa in the siege of Vera Cruz, 420–423; commands a squadron of four vessels sent in to divert the attention of the Mexicans, 424; exchanges places with a brother officer on the _Constellation_, and so saves his life, 354; commands the Confederate fleet at Savannah, iv. 168; his worthless flotilla, _ib._; attacked by the Federal fleet and retires, 171; destroys the _Merrimac_, 236, 237. Tayloe, Lieutenant, killed while assisting the Union wounded out of the _Congress_, iv. 209. Taylor, Captain John, chased by Captain Lawrence of the _Hornet_, ii. 181. Taylor, Thomas E., leading blockade-runner, iv. 57. Tea destroyed in Boston Harbor, i. 13. _Teaser_, privateer of New York, ii. 245. _Teaser_, American blockade-runner, iv. 60. _Tecumseh_, British gun-boat, iii. 145. _Tecumseh_, Federal monitor, iv. 386; sunk by a torpedo, 394. _Tenedos_, British frigate, captures the American frigate _President_, iii. 222; goes in chase of the _Constitution_, 244. _Tennessee_, Confederate ram, iv. 380. Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers, how far navigable, iv. 240. Tennessee opened up by the capture of Fort Henry, iv. 266; railroad communication cut off from, 267. Terceira, a Portuguese island, officers and crew of the _Alabama_ shipped from, iv. 431. Terry, General Alfred H., at Fort Fisher, iv. 516. Texas, Napoleon III. tries to persuade, to secede from the Confederacy, iv. 367–368. _Thalia_, British frigate, ii. 29. _Thames_, British frigate, attacks American gun-ship _Protector_, i. 207. Thatcher, Master Charles, iv. 370. _Theodora_, Confederate blockade-runner, carries Mason and Slidell to Cuba, iv. 141. _Thetis_, British frigate, chased by Porter and escapes, ii. 38. _Thomas_, American privateer, ii. 252. _Thompson_, Confederate ram, sunk at Fort Pillow, iv. 302. Thompson, Captain Egbert, before Fort Pillow, iv. 290. Thompson, Captain Thomas, i. 130; sent to France for supplies, _ib._; returns to America, 132–133. _Thorn_, American privateer, attacks and strikes the _Governor Tryon_ and _Sir William Erskine_, i. 209; captures the _Sparlin_, _ib._; captured by the _Deane_, 284, 287. _Ticonderoga_, American schooner, iii. 137–139. _Tigress_, American schooner, in battle of Lake Erie, ii. 295; captured by the British, iii. 109. Tilghman, General Lloyd, surrenders Fort Henry to Commodore Foote, iv. 265–266. Tillinghast, Lieutenant T. G., iii. 81. Tin-clads, light-draft steamers in Admiral Porter’s squadron, iv. 349. Tiptonville, Pope shuts Confederates in by occupying, iv. 276.