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sels then building in England. But these were seized by the British government soon after his arrival, and some time later he was ordered as one of the first lieutenants to the cruiser Shenandoah. From Madeira he sailed on this famous vessel, the last of the Confederate cruisers, to Australia, and thence to the North Pacific, and into the Arctic ocean, destroying the American whaling fleet. She captured in all thirty-eight ships, and on June 28, 1865, burned eight prizes near the mouth of Bering's strait. On August 2d they met the British bark Barracouta, from San Francisco, and learned of the capture of President Davis and the end of the war, whereupon they struck all guns below, transformed their ship into the appearance of a merchantman, and sailed for Liverpool, where they anchored November 6th. Then was hoisted for the last time the flag of the Southern Confederacy, having been carried by the Shenandoah to almost every quarter of the globe. There the ship was surrendered by