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Sea of gray : the around-the-world odyssey of the Confederate raider Shenandoah by Chaffin, Tom is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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The sleek 222-foot black auxiliary steamer Sea King left London on October 8, 1864, ostensibly bound for Bombay. The subterfuge was ended off the shores of Madeira, where the ship was outfitted for war. The newly christened CSS Shenandoah then commenced the last, most quixotic sea story of the Civil War: the 58,000-mile around-the-world cruise of the Confederacy's third most successful commerce raider. Before her voyage was over, thirty-two Union merchant and whaling ships and their cargoes would be destroyed. But it was only after ship and crew embarked on the last leg of their journey that the excursion took its most fearful turn. Four months after the Civil War was over, the Shenandoah's captain, James Waddell, finally learned he was, and had been, fighting without cause or state. In the eyes of the world, he had gone from being an enemy combatant to being a pirate-a hangable offense. Now fearing capture and mutiny, with supplies quickly dwindling, Waddell elected to camouflage the ship, circumnavigate the globe, and attempt to surrender on English soil. Assembled from hundreds of original documents, including intimate shipboard journals kept by Shenandoah officers, Sea of Gray
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Chaffin, Tom
- Publisher
- Hill and Wang
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780809095117
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Fiction, History, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.74 / 5 (176 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14