Last Shot The Incredible Story of the C. S. S. Shenandoah and the True Conclusion of the American Civil War

Name: Last Shot The Incredible Story of the C. S. S. Shenandoah and the True Conclusion of the American Civil War
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ISBN: 9780060523336

ISBN-10: 0060523336

ISBN-13: 9780060523336

Edition: 2005

Authors: Lynn Schooler

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In the autumn of 1864, at the height of the American Civil War, the Confederate raider Shenandoah received orders to "seek out and utterly destroy" the whaling fleets of New England as part of an effort to bleed the Union of its economic strength -- an undertaking that met its greatest success when the raider fell upon a fleet of whalers working the waters near Alaska's Little Diomede Island and sank more than two dozen ships in a frenzy of destruction. Before the Shenandoah's voyage was over, the raider had captured or sunk thirty-eight ships. She also took more than a thousand prisoners and led the best warships of the Union navy on a twenty-seven-thousand-mile chase that ended with her…

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List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 5/31/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.05" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Prologue


The Last Shot


Epilogue


Acknowledgments


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