num_pages: 448
description: The CSS Shenandoah commenced the last, most quixotic sea story of the Civil War. Before its voyage was over, 34 Union merchant and whaling ships and their cargoes would be sunk. Four months after the Civil War was over, the captain learned the war was over, and he had gone from being an enemy combatant to a pirate, a hangable offense.
language: English
title: Sea of Gray: The Around-the-World Odyssey of the Confederate Raider Shenandoah
publisher: Hill and Wang