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A Confederate biography : the cruise of the CSS Shenandoah /

From October 1864 to November 1865, the officers of the CSS Shenandoah carried the Confederacy and the conflict of the Civil War around the globe through extreme weather, alien surroundings and the people they encountered. Her officers were the descendants of Deep South plantation aristocracy and Ol...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hughes, Dwight Sturtevant (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Shenandoah (Cruiser)
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Naval operations, Confederate.
Confederate States of America. > Navy > Officers > Biography.
Sailors > Confederate States of America > Biography.
Confederate States of America > History.
Voyages around the world > History > 19th century.
Privateering > Bering Sea > History > 19th century.
Bering Sea > History, Naval.
Ocean travel > History > 19th century.
HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
HISTORY / Military / Naval.
Table of Contents:
  • 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 sight"
  • "Running her easting down"
  • The queen of the Delphine
  • End of the international road
  • The war down under
  • Charley the cook
  • "On the bright blue sea"
  • "The abomination of isolation"
  • "Upon a stone altar"
  • The world on fire
  • Invading the north
  • High tide of the Confederacy
  • "The darkest day"
  • "A feeling approaching panic"
  • "Having done my duty"
  • Epilogue.