The Sea King : The Life Of James Iredell Waddell

Based on documents never before publicly accessible from the US Navy, the
National Archives of the United States of America and the British Home
Office, "The Sea King" is the first biography of one of the Civil War's
most fascinating players. As the rogue captain of the last Confederate
commerce raider, the Shenandoah, James Waddell was a huge thorn in the side
of the post-Civil war administration (they branded him a pirate and an
enemy of the state), who singlehandedly destroyed the US whaling fleet,
almost brought Britain and America to war, and finally surrendered after a
22,000-mile journey at Liverpool. Proclaimed an American hero upon his
death in 1886 he was given the only state funeral ever awarded for a former
Confederate officer.