• Creator Names Shenandoah (Cruiser)
  • Title C.S.S. Shenandoah master's logbook [manuscript], 1864 Oct. 16-1865 Oct. 23.
  • Physical description 1 linear ft. (1 v. and 1 item)
  • Collection summary Logbook of Capt. Irvine S. Bulloch, Acting Master of Confederate States of America cruiser Shenandoah, Capt. James I. Waddell, commanding. Contains a list of officers on board and notes of the ships captured, the value of their cargoes, and the disposition of the prize (some were ransomed and others were burned). At the beginning of the period covered by the log, the ship set sail in the general direction of Australia and arrived at Melbourne, Jan. 25, 1865. After it left Australia and headed northward toward Hawaii, it attacked many whaling vessels. Included in the collection is a printed circular by R. C. Wyllie, with four manuscript endorsements relative to claims of Hackfeld & Company, 1865 Aug 12-Dec. 2, against the Confederate steamer Shenandoah for burning the Hawaiian bark Harvest.
  • Acquisition information Purchase from the Gunther estate (1923.1000).
  • Names
    • Shenandoah (Cruiser)
    • Hackfeld & Company.
    • Confederate States of America. Navy.
    • Harvest (Ship)
    • Bullock, Irvine S.
    • Waddell, James I. (James Iredell), 1824-1886.
    • Wyllie, Robert Crichton, 1798-1865.
    • Confederate States of America. Navy.
  • Subjects
    • Cruisers (Warships) Confederate States of America.
    • Whaling ships Pacific Ocean 19th century.
  • Geographic coverage
    • United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Naval operations.
    • Hawaii Commerce 19th century.
  • Genre
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    • Logs (records) aat
    • Logbooks.