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Monday, 27 November 1865 By late this morning, Commander Matthew Fontaine Maury--head of the office of Imperial Commissioner of Immigration for Emperor Maximilian I--could report that "...about 40 of our people..." had already arrived at [b]New Virginia[/b], the name he had given his proposed col...

Monday, 6 November 1865 The C.S.S. Shenandoah, still ably commanded by Lieutenant James Iredell Waddell, sailed up the Mersey River into Liverpool, 123 days and 23,000 miles from the Aleutians. This had been a non-stop cruise made almost exclusively under sail. The raider resorted to steam only o...

Wednesday, 1 November 1865 James Brooks, formerly of the United States Ram Fleet and Union Mississippi Marine Brigade, this evening wrote a brief sketch of the ram fleet history to Brigadier General L. B. Parsons, Chief of Transportation Department in St. Louis: "The idea...of destroying the enem...

Tuesday, 24 October 1865 Commander Matthew Fontaine Maury's oldest son, Richard, and the only member of the family who voiced any enthusiasm for his Confederate-Mexican resettlement plan, arrives in Mexico with his wife this morning. He, crippled like his father, would be Maury's understudy in di...

Saturday, 16 September 1865 The C.S.S. Shenandoah, still adroitly commanded by Lieutenant James Iredell Waddell, rounded Cape Horn this afternoon and entered the Atlantic enroute to Liverpool, England, continuing to avoid the large flotilla of Union ships diligently searching the high seas for he...

Wednesday, 6 September 1865 In Nashville, Union General George Thomas receives a scathing letter this afternoon from his Commander-In-Chief, President Andrew Johnson, about Johnson’s home in Tennessee, now under the control of Thomas: September 4, 1865, EXECUTIVE OFFICE, Washington, D. C. Pres...

Monday, 28 August 1865 Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter, who had commanded the Mississippi Squadron in the early part of the War Between the States and the South Atlantic Squadron in the latter part of the conflict, was this morning appointed Superintendent of the Naval Academy. Under his supervis...

Tuesday, 15 August 1865 The C.S.S. Shenandoah stood steadily for the empty South Atlantic. Up to the time of deciding to steer for the relative safety of England, Lieutenant James Iredell Waddell wrote that the ultra-successful Confederate commerce raider "...had made more than forty thousand mil...

Saturday, 12 August 1865 Rear Admiral Sylvanus William Godon arrived with the flagship U.S.S. Susquehanna in the harbor of Bahia, Brazil, pursuant to orders of the Federal Navy Department appointing him to command the Brazil Squadron. This squadron, dating back to the early 1820's, was reactivate...

Wednesday, 2 August 1865 (continued) More from the Shenandoah's log: On reaching the 129th meridian of west longitude we ran down parallel with the coast. On August 2, when in latitude 16 degrees 20 minutes north, longitude 121 depress 11 minutes west, we made out a vessel, a sailing bark, which ...