Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1886-04-01

the Confederate Navy. At the age Of
fourteen, when a midshipman, he Was
insulted by a senior officer, whom he
challenged, and duel was fought at
Norfolk, Va, in which Midshipman
Waddell received wound in the
thigh which caused him to limp ever
after. When he entered the Confed-
crate service he was given command
of the we'll known Shenandoah, and
with his vessel went into the Pacific
Ocean, entered the Arctic Seas and
destroyed hundreds of thousands OF
dollars of commerce.
The war had been over nine months
when he heard of it from an English
vessel. Most of his men begged him
to run the vessel ashore and let each
man look out for himself. This Cap
tain Waddell refused to do, but set sail
for Liverpool, where he arrived in
due time, runnin. the gauntlet Of the
United States Navy for twenty thou
sand miles. He had made a narrow
escape, for an American war steamer
was now close at his heels. Captain
Waddell did not dare to return to the
United States for a long period. as
public sentiment was very much against
him, the received opinion being that
he continued the war on unprotected
whaling vessels. He overhauled them
in the high latitudes in May, 1865
and began his work of destruction
among them. During the months of
May, June and July, he pursued the
whalers as far as 67o north latitude,
capturing and destroying in all % of
them. At one time he caught 13 to-
gether and destroyed them all. Sew
eral Of his captures he bonded and
provisioned, sending them to port with
the prisoners captured and paroled
from the vessels destroyed. Captain
Waddell asserted that in nearly every
instance the officers of these vessels
claimed that the war was ended but
as they could not prove the fact, and
protessed to have no later tidings than
he had he could not rely on their as
sertions.
After the destruction of the whalers
the Shenandoah returned southwark,
and when off San Francisco, on the
I'd of August 1865, he fell in with the
British Bark Baracota, from whose
master Waddell said he received the
first authentic news of the fall, of the
Confederacy He at once shaped his
course for Liverpool. The Shenando-
ah was at sea. under his command Ii
months, during all of which time she
had been in but one port-Melbourne
For continuous period of 8 months
her anchors remained undisturbed al
her bows; their lashings not even be
ing removed. This he claimed is the
longest continuous cruising on record
During this time the Shenandoah
sailed $4,000 statute miles and visited
/ every ocean on the globe except tht
Antarctic. She was the only ship tht
Captain boasted that carried the Con
federate flag around the globe. Th'
Shenandoah was built at GLASGOW il
1868 and was called the Sea King. II
September, 1864, she was sold to Rich
ard Wright, of Liverpool, and thu
passed into the hands of the Confeder
acy. She cleared at London for Bonn
bay, ostensibly as a merchant vessel
On the same day that she left Londol
another vessel, the Laurel left Liver
pool, with armament stores, CoAfedei
ate officers and several men elected i
the Confederate service. At Nader
the two vessels met the Laurel fitte
81 out the Sea King, while she becan
the Shenandoah After her surrende
che was turned over to the lutte
j States Government and subsequent
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