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1861 ; burned by Confederates on Lake Pontchartrain, 1862, to avoid capture.

PATRICK HENRY Side-wheel merchant steamer Yorktown; seized at Richmond, 1861; mounted ten guns; burned by Confederates at Richmond, 1865.

PLYMOUTH Sailing sloop of war; seized by the Confederates at the Gosport navy-yard, 1861; burned at the evacuation of Norfolk, 1862.

POLK Side- wheel river steamer, mounted seven guns; burned by Confederates in Yazoo river in 1863, to avoid capture.

PHCENIX Iron-clad floating battery, at Mobile. Burned by the Confederates at the fall of that city in 1865.

PONTCHARTRAIN Side-wheel river steamer, mounted seven guns. Burned by Confederates in 1863 on the Arkansas river.

QUEEN OF THE WEST Iron-protected ram. Captured from the Federals, February I4th, 1863, in Red river and sunk in battle in Atchafalaya river in April, 1863.

RALEIGH Iron-clad, four guns; built at Wilmington in 1864 and wrecked on Wilmington bar, May 7, 1864.

RAPPAHANNOCK Side-wheel river steamer, formerly the Saint Nicholas. Captured at Point Lookout, June 29, 1861, mounted one gun. Burned by the Confederates at Fredericksburg, April, 1862.

RAPPAHANNOCK Cruiser, formerly the British gun-boat Victoria. Purchased at London in 1863 and taken to Calais, but on account of complications with the French Government she never put to sea, and was finally sold in 1864.

RESOLUTE Wooden gun-boat, one gun. Destroyed by Federal field battery at the fall of Savannah in 1864.

RICHMOND Iron-clad, four guns. Launched at Gosport Navy Yard in 1862 and burned by Confederates at the evacuation of Rich- mond, April, 1865.

ROANOKE Iron tug, formerley the Raleigh. Bought in Norfolk in 1 86 1 and mounted one gun. Burned at Richmond upon the evacu- tion of that city.

SAVANNAH Iron-clad, four guns. Built at Savannah and burned by the Confederates at the evacuation of that city in December, 1864.