The Potomac Flotilla. -- Capture of Alexandria. -- Actions at Matthias Point. -- Bombardment of the Hatteras Forts. CHAPTER V. The "Trent" Affair. -- Operations in Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds. -- Destruction of the Confederate Fleet. CHAPTER VI. Reduction of Newbern. -- Exploits of Lieut. Cushing. -- Destruction of the Ram "Albemarle". CHAPTER VII. The Blockade-runners. -- Nassau and Wilmington. -- Work of the Cruisers. CHAPTER VIII. Du Pont's Expedition to Hilton Head and Port Royal. -- The Fiery Circle. CHAPTER IX. The First Ironclad Vessels in History. -- The "Merrimac" sinks the "Cumberland," and destroys the "Congress." -- Duel between the "Monitor" and "Merrimac". CHAPTER X. The Navy in the Inland Waters. -- The Mississippi Squadron. -- Sweeping the Tennessee River. CHAPTER XI. Famous Confederate Privateers, -- The "Alabama," the "Shenandoah," the "Nashville". CHAPTER XII. Work of the Gulf Squadron. -- The Fight at the Passes of the Mississippi. -- Destruction of the Schooner "Judah." -- The Blockade of Galveston, and Capture of the "Harriet Lane". CHAPTER XIII. The Capture of New Orleans. -- Farragut's Fleet passes Fort St. Philip and Fort Jackson. CHAPTER XIV. Along the Mississippi. -- Forts Jackson and St. Philip Surrender. -- The Battle at St. Charles. -- The Ram "Arkansas." -- Bombardment and Capture of Port Hudson. CHAPTER XV. On To Vicksburg. -- Bombardment of the Confederate Stronghold. -- Porter's Cruise in the Forests. CHAPTER XVI. Vicksburg Surrenders, and the Mississippi is opened. -- Naval Events along the Gulf Coast. CHAPTER XVII. Operations about Charleston. -- The Bombardment, the Siege, and the Capture. CHAPTER XVIII. The Battle of Mobile Bay. CHAPTER XIX. The Fall of Fort Fisher. -- The Navy ends its Work. _PART IV._ BLUE JACKETS IN TIME OF PEACE. CHAPTER I. Police Service on the High Seas. -- War Service in Asiatic Ports. -- Losses by the Perils of the Deep. -- A Brush with the Pirates. -- Admiral Rodgers at Corea. -- Services in Arctic Waters. -- The Disaster at Samoa. -- The Attack on the "Baltimore's" Men at Valparaiso. -- Loss of the "Kearsarge." -- The Naval Review. CHAPTER II. The Naval Militia. -- A Volunteer Service which in Time of War will be Effective. -- How Boys are trained for the Life of a Sailor. -- Conditions of Enlistment in the Volunteer Branch of the Service. -- The Work of the Seagoing Militia in Summer. CHAPTER III. How the Navy has Grown. -- The Cost and Character of Our New White Ships of War. -- Our Period of Naval Weakness and our Advance to a Place among the Great Naval Powers. -- The New Devices of Naval Warfare. -- The Torpedo, the Dynamite Gun, and the Modern Rifle. -- Armor and its Possibilities.