As the Confederacy felt itself slipping beneath the Union
juggernaut in late 1864, the South launched a desperate
counteroffensive to shatter the U.S. economy and force a standoff.
Its secret weapon? A state-of-the-art raiding ship whose mission
was to prowl the world's oceans and sink the U.S. merchant fleet.
The raider's name was Shenandoah, and her executive officer was
Conway Whittle, a twenty-four-year-old warrior who might have
stepped from the pages of Arthurian legend. Whittle would share
command with a dark and brooding veteran of the seas, Capt. James
Waddell, and together with a crew of strays, misfits, and
strangers, they would spend nearly a year sailing two-thirds of the
way around the globe, destroying dozens of Union ships and taking
more than a thousand prisoners, all while continually dodging the
enemy.
Then, in August of 1865, a British ship revealed the shocking truth
to the men of Shenandoah: The war had been over for months, and
they were now being hunted as pirates.
What ensued was an incredible 15,000-mile journey to the one place
the crew hoped to find sanctuary, only to discover that their fate
would depend on how they answered a single question. Wondrously
evocative and filled with drama and poignancy, "Last Flag Down" is
a riveting story of courage, nobility, and rare comradeship forged
in the quest to achieve the impossible.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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