After circumnavigating the globe and capturing or sinking 38 commercial Union ships, the raider CSS Shenandoah finally furled her huge Confederate flag at Liverpool, England, and surrendered eight ...
Cruise of the CSS Shenandoah -- Plans of the CSS Shenandoah -- Preface -- Introduction -- Otro Alabama -- Do the greatest injury -- None but fiends could -- Now came the trouble -- Oh, it's a grand ...
James Waddell, captain of the CSS Shenandoah, surrendered at Liverpool Town Hall One-hundred-and-fifty years ago, several months after the end of the American Civil War, the Confederate ship the CSS ...
Most students of Civil War history are familiar with the adventures of the ironclad CSS Virginia; Raphael Semmes’ commerce raider, CSS Alabama; and the world’s first true submarine, the H.L. Hunley.
The CSS “Shenandoah” only learned of the Confederacy’s defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser’s crew sank 24 American merchant vessels, unaware that the conflict had already ended The ...
"I wouldn't be surprised if there was a bit of Confederate DNA floating around Victoria." It's a story way closer to Richmond, Victoria than the Confederate heartland of Richmond, Virginia – a little ...
When confederate army Lieutenant Debney Scales was writing his diary aboard the CSS Shenandoah during the American Civil war, he could barely have imagined that more than 150 years later his words ...
IT SOUNDS like the far-fetched plot to a swashbuckling pirate movie, but the tale of the CSS Shenandoah's visit to Melbourne in 1865 is not even ''based on a true story'', as they say in Hollywood. It ...
James Waddell, captain of the CSS Shenandoah, surrendered at Liverpool Town Hall One-hundred-and-fifty years ago, several months after the end of the American Civil War, the Confederate ship the CSS ...
One-hundred-and-fifty years ago, several months after the end of the American Civil War, the Confederate ship the CSS Shenandoah sailed up the River Mersey to surrender in Liverpool. But why was the ...