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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
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 Captain Waddell to Captain Paynter, of the British ship Donegal, and after some correspondence between Captain Waddell and Earl Russell, the officers and men were permitted to go ashore. Lieutenant Grimball went to London, and after examination before the marine board obtained a certificate of qualification to command an English ship. He then went to Mexico as a colonist and settled on a ranch near Cordova. About the time of the collapse of Maximilian's empire he returned to Charleston, studied law and was admitted to