Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-10-14
A BRILLIANT FICTION.
The Commander of the Confede.
rate Cruiser Sherman Dead.
He Was james Ireden wadden, of North
Carolina, and Not C. Carroll Hicks. of
Maryland, as Enormously Stated by
Romance.
(New York Press)

(New York Press.)
The boldest romancer of the day is
one Il. Fenwick Colercll. sRuthor OF the
three thousand word sketch of Colo
mel c. Carroll Hicks. Commander of
the Confederate Cruiser Shenandoah"
This article was clipped from the In
dianapolis Press, and published in full
in the Evening Sun. making two coll
umns and a quarter OF the NEST brill
liant fiction that historian ever penned.
| never have seen in so small space so
much romancing. The writer's mag
ination is weird and ponderous ut the
same time. He manufactures Hicks
out of whole cloth, ard after the sur
render OF the Shenandoah converts the
commander into IL barn .slVrmlng
actor belonging to the Hicks Combi-
nation, 1898 Appearing FOR one week at
The 'oicrtck Opera House, Fort
Wayne. T.. tenwicil Colericlt probably
is the offspring of that house.
Colonel 9. Carroll Hicks. Comman-
der OF the Shenandoah" was sentenced
to BE- hanged for piracy. Ills uncle,
Governor Hicks. of Maryland. refused
To aid him. denouncinG him as trail
tor. deserving an igpominious death.
Secretary stanton, at the instance of
President Lincoln and Reverdy John
son. gave INN two hours TO leave
Washington. aud twcnty-four hours 10
get out OF the country. After the fail
urc of the Hicks Combination he
fought through the Russo Turkish
war, and atterward became q general,
| with the title of pasha, in the Egyp-
tan army. He opposed the Mahdi and
was burdened With honors by the Khe-
dive. Finally the Mahdis followers cut
| him and Ills command to pieces, his
body being pierced With hundreds or
spears.
In this man Colerick, the genius of
| fiction. is rampant. Was there ever
such another mass and maze OF fabri-
| cation? The Governor of Maryland re-
| fused to help his nephew? OF course.
| He was dead nearly year before Col
onel G. Carroll Hicks" was tried and
sentenced. The commander of the
! Shenandoah never was tried and never
was sentenced. There never was an
! interview with Stanton and the great
| War Secretary never gave him two
hours to leave Washington and TWEEN
| ty-four to get out of the countrywide
cause the commander of the Shenan-
doah was in England until liberated by
orders from this government. Hicks
| Pasha, Il hero of the Egyptian army,
| was William Hicks, an Englishman,
who. at the head of the Iihcdlve's
forces in an assault on Nhartounl, was
slain in July, 1883.
of the Republic and the United Con-
federate Veterans are quarreling over
the character of our school histories,
every bald and barefaced lie about the
war must be nailed In the interest OF
humanity. The Shenandoah was built
at Glasgow in 1863 for the China trade,
and was commissioned The Sea King.
The Confederate Government bought
her and christened her Shenandoah,
and she received her crew and went in
to active service off the Island of Ma
deirn Her first and only commander
was James Iredell Waddel,, native OF
| North Carolina. He was appointed Il
| midshipmnn in the United States navy
in 1871. and in 1872 fought n duel that
| famed him for life.
| The Shenandoah wrought great havoc
among the shipping OF the North IN the
closing year of the war. and long after
! the fall of the Confederate Government
| continued to sink and burn vessels.
Commander Waddell did not hear OF
| the end of the war until over three
! months after the surrender lmineui-
| atcly slowing away his guns IN the
! hold he sailed for Liverpool and sur
! rendered to the british Government;
! He and his crew We're liberated, and
| on November TO- 1865. the Shenandoah
was delivered To the United States Con-
sui at Liverpool. Waddell lived for
several years in Liverpool ana Farls,
seventies The Shenandoah had car.
ried the flag of the Confederacy around
the world, capturing thirty-rtEHt YES
sells. OF which she released six on bond
and destroyed thirty-two. 1ney We're
worth Sl,152. 900.
In the Naval War Records OF the Ike
bellion is published Il complete list of
the officers of the Confederate States
navy. and there are hut two or the
name OF Uicks-one being James NJ.
Hicks, an assistant surgeon, and the
other William y. Hicks. n lieutenant
ON the Sumter and afterward in charge
of the prize Joseph Maxwell This dis
poses of "Colone! G. Carroll Hicks,
commander of the shenandoah Tie
suns own headlines We're: "A Re
markable American-Sketch of the Lite
OF Commander of the Shenandoah
Educated at Annapolis He Left the
Navy. and When Civil War Broke Out
Became Il Privateer-Sentenced to BE
Hanged, and Pardoned, He Fought for
Egypt and Turkey" Commander Wad-
dell, in 1875. became captain of the san
Francisco, Pacific Mail steamship in
the China trade. on May. is, 1877. she
struck rock and went down. All the
passengers were saved and the captain
was the last TO leave the deck. AS for
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