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A Confederate Biography (The Cruise of the CSS Shenandoah)
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Product Details
Author:
Dwight Sturtevant Hughes
Format:
Paperback
Publisher:
Naval Institute Press (March 16, 2024)
Imprint:
Naval Institute Press
Language:
English
Audience:
General/trade
ISBN-13:
9781682473191
ISBN-10:
1682473198
Weight:
15.04oz
File:
PGW-LEGATO-Metadata_Only_Publishers_Group_West_Customer_Group_Metadata_20260605164705-20260605.xml
Folder:
PGW
List Price:
$34.95
Country of Origin:
United States
Pub Discount:
60
Case Pack:
32
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$30.06
Publisher Identifier:
P-PER
Discount Code:
C
Pages:
272
Dimensions:
6.14" x 9.21"
Overview
From October 1864 to November 1865, the officers of the CSS Shenandoah carried the Confederacy and the conflict of the Civil War around the globe through extreme weather, alien surroundings, and the people they encountered. Her officers were the descendants of Deep South plantation aristocracy and Old Dominion first families: a nephew of Robert E. Lee, a grandnephew of founder George Mason, and descendants of one of George Washington's generals and of an aid to Washington. One was even an uncle of a young Theodore Roosevelt and another was son-in-law to Raphael Semmes. Shenandoah's mission-commerce raiding (guerre de course)-was a central component of U.S. naval and maritime heritage, a profitable business, and a watery form of guerrilla warfare. These Americans stood in defense of their country as they understood it, pursuing a difficult and dangerous mission in which they succeeded spectacularly after it no longer mattered. This is a biography of a ship and a cruise, and a microcosm of the Confederate-American experience.
