"From October 1864 to November 1865 the CSS Shenandoah carried the Civil War around the globe, through every extreme of sea and storm. Her officers represented a cross section of the Confederacy, from Old Dominion first families through the Deep South aristocracy to a middle-class Missourian. Among these men were a nephew of Robert E. Lee, a grandnephew of founder George Mason, a son-in-law to Raphael Semmes, grandsons of men who fought at George Washington's side, and an uncle of Theodore Roosevelt. They considered themselves Americans, Southerners, rebels, and warriors embarking on the voyage of their lives, defending their country as they understood it and pursuing a difficult, dangerous mission in which they succeeded spectacularly after it no longer mattered. This book is, as Adm. Raphael Semmes describes, a biography of a cruise and a microcosm of the Confederate-American experience" -- Provided by publisher.

Cruise of the CSS Shenandoah -- Plans of the CSS Shenandoah -- Preface -- Introduction -- "Otro Alabama" -- "Do ... the greatest injury" -- "None but fiends could" -- "Now came the trouble" -- "Oh, it's a grand sight" -- "Running her easting down" -- "The queen of the Delphine" -- End of the international road -- The war down under -- Charley the cook -- "On the bright blue sea" -- "The abomination of isolation" -- "Upon a stone altar" -- The world on fire -- Invading the north -- High tide of the Confederacy -- "The darkest day" -- "A feeling approaching panic" -- "Having done my duty" -- Epilogue.