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Last flag down : the epic journey of the last Confederate warship
- Title
- Last flag down : the epic journey of the last Confederate warship / John Baldwin and Ron Powers.
- Author
- Baldwin, John, 1944 July 22-
- Publication
- New York : Crown Publishers, [2007], ©2007.
- Supplementary Content
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- Additional Authors
- Powers, Ron.
- Description
- 354 pages : illustrations, map; 25 cm
- Summary
- "As the Confederacy felt itself slipping beneath the Union juggernaut in late 1864, the South launched a desperate counteroffensive to shatter the U.S. economy and force a standoff. Its secret weapon? A state-of-the-art raiding ship whose mission was to prowl the world's oceans and sink the U.S. merchant fleet. The raider's name was Shenandoah, and her executive officer was Conway Whittle, a twenty-four-year-old warrior who might have stepped from the pages of Arthurian legend. Whittle would share command with a dark and brooding veteran of the seas, Capt. James Waddell, and together with a crew of strays, misfits, and strangers, they would spend nearly a year sailing two-thirds of the way around the globe, destroying dozens of Union ships and taking more than a thousand prisoners, all while continually dodging the enemy." "Then, in August of 1865, a British ship revealed the shocking truth to the men of Shenandoah: The war had been over for months, and they were now being hunted as pirates." "What ensued was an incredible 15,000-mile journey to the one place the crew hoped to find sanctuary, only to discover that their fate would depend on how they answered a single question."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 0307236552
- 9780307236555
- LCCN
- 2006025706
- OCLC
- ocm71004087
- 71004087
- SCSB-5359390
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries