Bibliograph

Last flag down, the epic journey of the last Confederate warship, John Baldwin and Ron Powers

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Last flag down, the epic journey of the last Confederate warship, John Baldwin and Ron Powers

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Last flag down

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

71004087

Responsibility statement

John Baldwin and Ron Powers

Sub title

the epic journey of the last Confederate warship

Summary

A masterpiece of storytelling penned by a descendent of the ship's Executive Officer and the Pulitzer Prize-winning co-author of Flags of our father. 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

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