Wednesday, June 10, 2015

June 25, 1865---"The Sunday Showdown"



JUNE 25, 1865:          

The C.S.S. SHENANDOAH positioned herself between the Siberian mainland and St. Lawrence Island at the southern approach to the Bering Sea, and took (and mostly destroyed) the whaleships GENERAL WILLIAMS, NIMROD, WILLIAM C. NYE, CATHARINE, GENERAL PIKE, ISABELLA, and GYPSEY within a 24 hour period. Although several of the Yankee skippers protested that the war was over and showed SHENANDOAH’s Master newspapers confirming the fact, the papers were dated and included Jefferson Davis’ vow to fight on. And so SHENANDOAH did.


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