Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 25., chapter 1.11, The Shenandoah in a gale., page 123

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Crutchfield 's artillery Brigade .

The charge of the Crater .

The only Confederate cruiser afloat.

Water, water everywhere.

A very small crew at the start.

The Shenandoah's officers.

A Metamorphosed merchantman.

First prize captured.

How captured men were treated.

Met no decided resistance.

Helped to fire their own vessel.

Prisoners' money not interfered with.

The Shenandoah in a gale.

A Skipper's Plucky wife.

Desolate Isles in the Indian Ocean .

John Bull could not Scare Captain Waddell .

Burned four ships at Ascension.

Scouring the Arctic Ocean .

Nine whalers burned in one day.

Inside the Artic circle.

Sad news from the Confederacy .

Without a country and without a flag.

And freedom with her banner torn but flying.

Surrendered to the British at Liverpool .

Thirty-eight vessels captured in all.

Followed the example of the United States .

（ Washington letter.)

The Signal service Corps. [ Sunday news , Charleston, S. C. , May 2 , 1897 .]

Hon. James Murray Mason , of Mason & Slidell fame.

Drewry's Bluff .

A horror of the war. [from the Richmond, Va. , times, March 14 , 1897 .]

The Cumberland Grays, Company D , Twenty-first Virginia Infantry .

The private soldier of the C. S. Army , and as Exemplified by the Representation from North Carolina .

General Raleigh E. Colston , C. S. Army .

Ode to the Confederate soldiers' monument in Oakdale Cemetery , Wilmington, N. C.

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[123] and crew to England. The sequel to all this was that in four days, we were at sea in thorough repair, with a good supply of coal, and altogether in first class trim for cruising.

While at Melbourne the officers were the recipients of invitations to a number of very handsome entertainments, and to one exceptionally so at Ballarat, a mining town about forty miles from the coast.

Richmond, VA. 1897.

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