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.

_PART V._

THE NAVAL WAR WITH SPAIN.

CHAPTER I.

The State of Cuba. -- Pertinacity of the Revolutionists. --
Spain's Sacrifices and Failure. -- Spanish Barbarities. --
The Policy of Reconcentration. -- American Sympathy aroused.
-- The Struggle in Congress. -- The Assassination of the
"Maine." -- Report of the Commission. -- The Onward March to
Battle.

CHAPTER II.

The Opening Days of the War. -- The First Blow struck in the
Pacific. -- Dewey and his Fleet. -- The Battle at Manila. --
An Eye-witness' Story. -- Delay and Doubt in the East. --
Dull Times for the Blue-jackets. -- The Discovery of
Cervera. -- Hobson's Exploit. -- The Outlook.