Muskets, 128, 281
Muskogee, Okla., 547
Mussey, Reuben D., 263
Muster rolls, 129, 195, 196, 379,
389; Army, 258-259, 383-384;
Boston Navy Yard, 494; in U. S.
consular records, 162; marines,
473, 474; naval, 443, 458, 462,
463; Naval Asylum, 472; New York
Navy Yard, 495; Portsmouth Navy
Yard, 497; revenue cutters, 223;
use of for bounty claims, 76
Mutiny, 100, 105, 422

Myer, Albert J., 347, 348, 349

Moses Whitemire, Trustee v. Cher- Mystic River, 494

Na

Naval History Society, 446
Naval Intelligence Office, 448, 449
Naval inventions, propeller, 28
Naval legislation, 28

Naval magazines, 466

Naval mathematics professors, peti-

tions re, 56

Naval medicine, historical data,

461

Naval Observatory, 41, 441, 462
Naval Observatory and Hydrograph-
ical Office, 464-465
Naval officers, accounts, 198; ad-
ministration, 461; Coast Survey
duty, 226; corresp., 464, 467,
470; Customs Service, 218, 219;
data in logbooks, 463; detailing,
463; dismissals, 128; examining
boards, 474-475; foreign protests
against behavior of, 140; increase
in number, 56; letter books, 488;
letters, 442, 446; letters to, 462,
465; letters to Welles, 445; Light-
House Board duty, 230; list en-
gaged in battles, 487; papers: 449,
450, 451, Jenkins, 491, Patter-
son, 490, Walke, 491; photographs,
445, 457; records, 443, 453, 462,
555; resignations, 443; retirement,
420, 475; serve at navy yards, 494-
498; service records, 198; volun-
teers, 489

Naval Operations, Office of the Chief
of, 449

Naval ordnance, 452, 466-467

Naval Ordnance Depot, New Orleans,
La., 469

Naval ordnance depots, 467
Naval ordnance laboratory, 498
Naval ordnance officers, 467
Naval personnel, 452, 453; active
list, 28; deaths, 311; medical ex-
aminations, 459; medical history,
460; medical records, 384, 461;
pay claims, 129; pensions, 56,
551; rank, 28; records, 56, 494;
retirements, 56

Naval Personnel Bureau, 461
Naval Records and Library Office,
448-453, 493; Welles papers lent
to, 445

Naval Retiring Board, 475

Naval stations, 492-498; cables to

coastal military stations, 35;
corresp., 462, 471, 488; logbooks,
463; medical journals, 460; personnel
records, 471-472; photographs,
472; reservations, 521; supervi-
sion, 471

Naval storekeepers, 492; corresp.,
460, 470; letters, 442; letters to,
462; New York Navy Yard, 495
Naval Supplies, Senate Select Com-
mittee on, 36-37

Naval surgeons, navy yards, 492
Naval technology, 452
Naval vessels, armament, 15, 56,

466, 468; armor, 28, 467; claims,
481; complements, 462; construc-
tion, 439, 452, 454, 456, 494, 495;
denied British colonial port cour-
tesies, 139; disposition, 63; let-
ters to, 441; lists, 463, 487, 488;
machinery, 453, 469; marine
guards, 473, 474; number, 196;
photographs, 445; plans, 457, 471;
procurement, 514; purchase, 440,
476-477; registers, 453; repairs,
442, 455, 494-498; sale, 455;
trials, 470. See also Gunboats,
Ironclads, Logbooks, Monitors,
and names of ships

Naval War Records Office, 448, 488
Navigation, 181

Navigation aids, 230, 231, 232
Navigation Bureau, Navy Department,
439, 448, 451, 458, 461-466, 467;
Naval Home transferred to, 472;
officers' records, 555
Navigation officers, 461, 462
Navigation statistics, 187
Navy, U. S., 225, 291; accounts, 184;
appropriation bill, 60; assistance
to Army, 293; battles, 452, 463,
487; claims, 210, 595; Coast Sur-
vey cooperation, 226-228; contracts,
28; damage caused by, 173; enlist-
ments, 45, 340; expansion, 80,
439; flotilla corresp., 441; for-
eigners in South imprisoned, 162;
investigation of deployment, 62;
merchant vessels in, 220; opera-
tions, 128, 174, 228, 229, 446,
449; pay, 28; pension cases, 554;
pension fund, 503, 551; photo-
graphs of actions, 445; prize cases

from captures by, 109; prize
money, 28; published documents,
43; regulations, 442; requests
lighthouse service, 232; revenue
cutters cooperate with, 222;
seizes private property, 125;
squadrons: corresp., 441, 449,
operations, 451, organization,
439, records, 452; supplies, 64,
494; supports Army operations,
222; uniform regulations, 442.
See also Medical Department,
Pension agents, Surgeons, Vet-

erans

Navy agents, 198, 441, 442, 469, 492;
accounts, 184, 197, 445; corresp.,
458, 460, 470, 471; financial rec-
ords, 472; funds drawn for, 456;
letters to, 462, 464; Portsmouth
Navy Yard, 470

Navy Department, 202, 439-498;
abuses in, 47; accounts, 196;
captured property, 233; consular
reports on Confederate activities
sent to, 159; gunboat fleet trans-
ferred to, 195, 299, 454; House
Appropriation Committee papers
re, 43; investigations for by Na-
tional Academy of Sciences, 593;
reorganization, 439. See also
Secretary of the Interior
Navy Department, House Standing
Committee on Expenditures in,
46-47

Navy Department Building, 451
Navy disbursing officers, receipts
to Treasury, 190

Navy paymasters, 56, 469, 470,
471; accounts, 184, 197, 198;
relief from losses, 28
Navy yards, 28, 441, 492-498;

corresp., 358, 464, 467, 470,
471, 485; disposition of guns, 468;
employees, hours, 28, 56; in-
vestigations of employees, 448;
land titles, 420; letter to com-
mandants, 441, 462; lists of per-
sonnel, 444; location, 225, 227;
marine guards, 473, 474; occupa-
tions, 457; ordnance manufacture,
467; pay, 56; payrolls, 471; per-
sonnel records, 471-472; photo-
graphs, 445, 472; plans, 457, 472;

records, 56; reservations, 521-
522; ship construction, 454; sites
for, 55, 472, 480; steam machin-
ery manufacture, 470; stores ex-
pended, 456; supervision, 471;
surgeons serve at, 460
Nebraska, penitentiary, 518; salt-
spring lands, 517; surveyors'
general records to, 527
Nebraska, U. S. S., 195
Nebraska City, Nebr. Ter., 121
Nebraska State Historical Society,
Nebr. Ter., Supreme Court rec-
ords, 122
Nebraska Territory, Army post,
407-408; courts, 121-122; explora-
tions, 273; Indian depredations,
511; public lands, 60; records,
149; reduced in size, 119, 120;
volunteer regiments, 405; wagon
roads, 512

Neeser, Robert W., 456
Negley, James S., 331
Negroes, apprenticed, 371, 372; buy
S. C. land, 207, 209; colonization,
48, 65, 139, 499, 502, 506-508,
516; commemoration of freedom,
43; condition of, 237; Congress and,
36, 52, 60; court testimony, 374;
draft, 391; extension of voting
rights to, 36; fugitives freed, 4;
Ku Klux Klan murders, 417; mat-
rimony, 23; pension cases, 554;
postwar treatment in South, 4;
regiments, 252; religion, 23; rights,
4; seek refuge in Washington, 500;
segregation in District of Colum-
bia, 23; superstitions, 23; War
Dept. responsibility, 390; white
relationships in Memphis, 72.
See also Slaves; Soldiers, colored;
Voting rights
Neill, Edward D., 134
Nelson, George W., 556
Nelson, Samuel, 85, 164
Nelson, Thomas A. R.,
591
Nelson Station, Va.,
Nemaha, U. S. revenue cutter, 223
Nemaha Indians, 48
Nesmith, James W., 12
Netherlands, 2

61

Neutral rights, treaty with Russia
on, 2

ary

Neutrality laws, violation of, 144
Nevada, admitted, 122; penitenti-
ary, 518

Nevada, steamboat, 224

INDEX

Nevada Territory, census of, 59,
566; courts, 122; Indian superin-
tendency, 545; mining camps in,
115; mint, 24, 44; records of,
149; surveyor general, 526; vol-
unteer regiments, 405
New Albany, Ind., 480
New Bedford, Mass., 64, 220
New Bern, N. C., 374; customhouse
reopened, 219; freedmen's dis-
bursing office, 266; naval hospi-
tal, 459; relief from taxes, 26;
U. S. Christian Commission, 590
New Brunswick, N. J., 106
New England, coast survey, 226;
navy yard, 225; raising soldiers
in, 254

New England Soldiers Relief Asso-
ciation, 311

New England Women's Auxiliary
Association, 588

New Hampshire, volunteer regi-
ments, 405

New Hampshire, U. S. S., 453, 489
New Haven, Conn., customs col-

lector, 220; Federal courts, 94
New Haven Chemical Works, 467
New Ironsides, U. S. S., 454, 478
489

New Jersey, assigned to Middle

Circuit, 106; call up of "emer-
gency men," 242; volunteer regi-
ments, 405

New London, Conn., 472, 479;

customs collector, 220; navy
yard, 227; steamboat inspection,
225

New Madrid, Mo., 281

New Mexico Territory, 545; Army
post in, 406, 409, 410; Confed-
erate invasion, 10, 409; courts,
122, 123; Governor's message,
59; Indian depredations, 536; In-
dian superintendency, 545, 546,
547; land donations, 517; mili-
tary forces increased, 530; mili-
tary roads in, 53; private land
claims, 523, 525, 526; pueblos,
525; records, 149; reduced, 119;

slavery in, 52; surveyor general,
525, 526; township plats, 526;
tract books, 521; troops supply,
297; volunteer regiments, 405
New Orleans, La., 236, 237, 370,
390; Army medical board, 307;
board to examine quartermaster
officers, 289; British residents
in, 157; capture, 10, 101, 142,
293; claim re tobacco seizure at,
21; Confederates seize custom-
house, 218; courts, 101, 102; cus-
tomhouse frauds, 74; defenses of,
399; freedmen's disbursing office,
266; freedmen's hospital, 357, 371;
govt., 392; Hammond ordered to,
305; investigation of corruption,
392; military govt., 142, 411; mili-
tary organization in, 157; military
prison, 322; mint, 215, 216; mon-
ies taken from banks, 254; naval
hospital, 459; naval ordnance de-
pot, 469; officer examining board,
263-264; prize cases, 86; purchas-
ing agent, 241; relief from levies,
26; riot, 74, 395; signal detach-
ment, 350; telegrams sent from,
250; war and postwar conditions,
74. See also Consuls, French
New Orleans Naval Station, La., 493;
ordnance depot, 467; payrolls, 472;
records, 494

New Providence, Bahamas, 143
New River Inlet, N. C., 230
New York, call up of "emergency

men," 242; Ebenezer Society, 27;
41st Regiment, 157; German-descent
population, 28; incorporates Pan-
ama Railroad Co., 586; ratifies
Fourteenth Amendment, 19; re-
cruiting frauds, 54; volunteer
regiments, 405

New York, N. Y., 27, 211, 319, 500;
Army headquarters leaves, 243;
Army medical board, 307, 308;
assay office, 217; Asst. Treas-
urer of U. S., 190; attempt to
burn, 329; bounty payments to
regiment of, 157; bullion vessels
escorted to, 486; cotton quotations,
241; customhouse: 219, Copper-
head activity, 220, investigation,
58, 218; customs collector, 220,