In the eyes of the Union, he had gone from being an enemy combatant to a pirate, a hangable offense. Launched secretly from England in October, 1864, the CSS Shenandoah became the Confederacy's second most successful merchant raider, but-after rounding Africa's Cape of Good Hope, stopping long enough in Australia to cause a diplomatic crisis, and navigating the ice floes of Siberia's Sea of Okhotsk, the Bering Sea, and the Arctic Ocean-Captain Waddell learned that he had been fighting without cause or state, since the Civil War had ended four months earlier. The story of 58,000-mile, around-the-world cruise of the Confederacy's last ship afloat.
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