Civil War, 2–3, 76, 243, 263, 312, 386, 400, 581, 555, 560, 562–563

firing on Fort Sumter and Lincoln's call for 75,000 volunteers, 377

Clarke

Dwight L., 555

Peter I., 369

Thomas C.

Mission of America, 206, 211, 309, 311, 353, 550, 554

Clay, Henry, 263, 365

Clayton, John M., 351

coastal survey, 44

Cochran

Hamilton, 466

Thomas, 534

Cockburn, Admiral Thomas C., 18, 20–21

Code Duello, 28, 187, 192

Colerain Plantation, 64–65

Collingwood (HMS), 162, 170, 235

Colton, Rev. Walter, 138–141, 159, 254–255, 549, 552

Committee on Naval Affairs (House), 125–126, 292–293, 557

Committee on Roads and Canals (House), 79

Committee on Science and the Arts (Franklin Institute), 129, 558

Commodore

Charles Stewart, 35–36, 38

Cornelius Vanderbilt, 319

David Conner, 160

David Porter, 459

Isaac Chauncey, 27–28, 30

James Biddle, 59, 224

John Rodgers, 4

John Templar Shubrick, 62, 126, 221–224, 250, 253, 265, 269

Matthew C. Perry, 4, 16–23, 27, 48, 52, 62, 91, 100, 108–109, 114, 121, 137, 145, 181, 314

Oliver Hazard Perry, 10

Uriah P. Levy, 4–5, 131, 290–294, 300

Congress, USS, 3, 5, 159, 162–165, 171, 183, 186, 190, 193–195, 219–220, 226, 254, 289, 293, 298, 393–394, 549, 552

Constellation, USS, 157, 160–161

Cooper, James Fenimore, 269, 548

Copenhagen, Battle of, 12

corporal punishment, 560

“Corporations have no souls”, 272, 323, 329, 408

Court of Common Pleas of Somerset County, 7

Court of Inquiry, 47

cow catcher, locomotive innovation, 321

Cowingo, 212

creative disobedience, 12–14, 28, 43, 48, 50, 52, 59–62, 70, 90, 172–173, 255

Cuba, 60–61, 69, 146, 167, 255, 360, 400

Cyane, USS, 46, 48, 219

Dale, USS, 222, 554

Dallas, Captain Alexander J., 25, 302

Dana, Richard Henry, 287–290, 293, 300

Two Years Before the Mast, 287