The last shots of the American Civil War were fired in Russian territory

Historians don't talk a lot about naval action during the Civil War.

It doesn't get the same attention if it's not about a boat or a ship.

There were a lot of things done by theCSS Shenandoah.

She was the ship that took the Civil War to the global stage and was the last Confederate flag to be lowered. Some of the prisoners who joined the Confederate ship were prize winners.

The British built this place. The Brits transferred her to the Confederates off the coast of Africa. The Cape of Good Hope, through the Pacific, and into the Bering Sea were where Shenandoah wreaked havoc.

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Alaska was owned by the Russian Czar. The Czar was friends with the US. The Czar was not happy when the whaling fleets were burned.

She continued her rampage even after the war ended. Even though American whaling captains told him that Lee's surrender ended the war, the skipper didn't think so.

He was the only remaining Confederate. He decided to attack the city of San Francisco. On his way to California, he met a British ship who told him that the Confederates were going to be hanged.

Capt. Waddell hid the ship, stowed its weaponry, and made a dash for Great Britain with a bounty on his head.

He was out of major shipping lanes. He didn't contact any ships or stop in any port when he surrendered to the Royal Navy.

The ship's captain was the inspiration for the name of the ship. It was the first ship to be named after an enemy captain who wreaked havoc on American shipping.