The last shot : the incredible story of the C.S.S. Shenandoah and the true conclusion of the American Civil War /

In the autumn of 1864, at the height of the American Civil War, the Confederate raider Shenandoah received orders to "seek out and utterly destroy" the whaling fleets of new England as part of an effort to bleed the Union of its economic strength -- an undertaking that met its greatest suc...

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