The Confederate Steam Ship Shenandoah is renowned as the last vessel to surrender after the Civil War, and the young officers on board who didn t learn of the war s end for three months consequently suffered extraordinary physical and emotional stress. This first-hand account of the crew s hazardous last year, told through shipboard diaries and postwar journals, reveals the heavy personal toll they paid during the cruiser s transition from commissioned commerce raider to hunted fugitive.Many of the Shenandoah s officers had resigned commissions in the United States Navy to fight...