Captain James I. Waddell, commanding the CSS Shenandoah, learns that the War of Federal Aggression is lost, and orders his vessel’s guns stowed below decks for a 17,000-mile voyage to the United Kingdom.

       [added 4/23/2022]

Subsequent Events:

8/21/1865                   11/5/1865

References:

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,167,124,467,492

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