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The officers of the CSS Shenandoah

By Angus Curry

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Publish Date

2006

Publisher

University Press of Florida

Language

eng

Pages

428

Description:

"The Confederate Steam Ship Shenandoah is renowned as the last vessel to surrender after the Civil War, and the young officers on board - who didn't learn of the war's end for three months - consequently suffered extraordinary physical and emotional stress. This firsthand account of the crew's hazardous last year, told through shipboard diaries and postwar journals, reveals the heavy personal toll they paid during the cruiser's transition from commissioned commerce raider to hunted fugitive"--Jacket.