by Terry Smyth
Engineer Ernest Mugguffeney
Surgeon Charles E. Lining
Paymaster Breedlove Smith
Midshipman O.A. Brown
Midshipman John T. Mason
Assistant Surgeon Fred J. McNulty
Master’s Mate Cornelius E. Hunt
Master’s Mate John T. Minor
Master’s Mate Lodge Colton
Boatswain George Harwood
Carpenter J. O’Shea
Gunner J.L. Guy
Sailmaker Henry Alcott
Appendix II
The 42 Melbourne recruits
Amended from the list according to William Temple, whose evidence for the Alabama Claims was of doubtful accuracy.
Petty officers
Robert Dunning, captain of the foretop
Thomas Strong, captain of the mizzen-mast
Charles Cobbey, gunner’s mate
John James, carpenter’s mate
John Spring, captain of the hold
Ernest W. Burt, doctor’s steward
James McLaren, master-at-arms
William Smith, ship’s cook
David Alexander, corporal of marines
George P. Canning, sergeant of marines
Marines
William Kenyon
Henry Reily
Robert Brown
Sailors
John Blacker, captain’s clerk
John Collins
Thomas Foran
Lawrence Kerney
John McDonal
John Ramsdale
Franklin Gower
John Kilgower
Thomas Swanton
John Moss
James Fegan
Samuel Crooks
John Simmes
John Hill
William Hutchinson
Thomas Evans
Charles H. Morton
George H. Gifford
Henry Canning
James Ross
John Williams
Duke Simmons
Firemen
Thomas McLean
William Brice
William Green
William Burgess
Joseph Mullineux
Henry Sutherland
James Stranth
Appendix III
Ships captured by the Shenandoah
There are discrepancies among lists by Captain Waddell, various ship’s officers and other sources. The list below is based on that of Master’s Mate Cornelius Hunt.
Abigail, New Bedford, captured 27 May 1865, $16,705
Adelaide, Baltimore, captured December 1864 (exact date not listed), $24,000
Alina, Searsport, captured 30 October 1864, value $95,000
Brunswick, New Bedford, captured 28 June 1865, $16,272
Catherine, New Bedford, captured 25 June 1865, $26,174
Charter Oak, San Francisco, captured 5 November, $15,000
Congress, New Bedford, captured 28 June 1865, $55,300
Covington, New Bedford, captured 28 June 1865, $30,000
D. Godfrey, Boston, captured 8 November 1864, $36,000
Delphine, Bangor, captured 29 December 1864, $25,000
Edward, New Bedford, captured 4 December 1864, $20,000
Edward Carey, San Francisco, captured 1 April 1865, $15,000
Euphrates, New Bedford, 22 June 1865, $42,320
Favorite, Fairhaven, captured 28 June 1865, $57,896
General Pike, New Bedford, captured 25 June 1865, $30,000
General Williams, New Bedford, captured 28 June 1865, $44,750
Gypsey, New Bedford, captured 25 June 1865, $34,369
Harvest, Honolulu, captured 1 April 1865, $34,759
Hector, New Bedford, captured 1 April 1865, $58,000
Hillman, New Bedford, captured 28 June 1865, $33,000
Isaac Howland, New Bedford, captured 28 June 1865, $75,112
Isabella, New Bedford, captured 25 June 1865, $38,000
James Murray, New Bedford, captured 28 June 1865, $40,550
Jireh Swift, New Bedford, captured 22 June 1865, $61,960
Kate Prince, Portsmouth, New Jersey, captured 12 November 1864, $40,000
Lizzie M. Stacey, Boston, captured 13 November 1864, $15,000
Martha, New Bedford, captured 28 June 1865, $30,307
Milo, New Bedford, captured 28 June 1865, $30,000
Nassau, New Bedford, captured 28 June 1865, $40,000
Nile, New London, captured 28 June 1865, $25,550
Nimrod, New Bedford, captured 25 June 1865, $29,260
Pearl, New London, captured 1 April 1865, $10,000
Sophia Thornton, New Bedford, captured 22 June 1865, $70,000
Susan, New York, captured 10 November 1864, $5,436
Susan Abigail, New Bedford, captured 25 June 1865, $6,500
Waverly, New Bedford, captured 28 June 1865, $62,376
William C. Nye, New Bedford, captured 25 June 1865, $31,512
William Thomson, New Bedford, captured 22 June 1865, $40,925
The Shenandoah in Hobson’s Bay, Melbourne, February 1865 (artist, Samuel Calvert). Courtesy Photo Collection, State Library Victoria
This etching, bearing the legend ‘Captain Waddell, of the Confederate War Steamer Shenandoah’, appeared in a Melbourne publication around the time of the ship’s arrival. Courtesy Photo Collection, State Library Victoria
‘Ball Given to the Officers of the Confederate Steamer Shenandoah at Ballarat’. Courtesy Photo Collection, State Library Victoria
Visitors flocked to the port, intent on seeing the ‘man of war’ for themselves. When the Shenandoah was moved to a slipway in Williamstown for repairs, it was decided to charge visitors sixpence each, and the money was donated to local charities. In order to get on with the work, however, all sightseers were soon banned. Courtesy Photo Collection, State Library Victoria
The visitors were presented with courtesy rail passes, so they could make their way from the port of Sandridge to inner-city Melbourne with ease.
Photo courtesy Barry Crompton
A single woman who found favour with one of the visitors might be presented with a button from the Confederate States Navy uniform. The design featured an anchor and crossed cannon device on a lined field with a rope border. The buttons were manufactured in London.
A small cannon salvaged from the Shenandoah. The raider’s Achilles heel was that it was unsafe for all the guns on one side of the ship to be fired at once. Photo courtesy Barry Crompton
The Governor of Victoria, Sir Charles Darling, was briefly the meat in the sandwich. The US consul demanded the Confederate belligerents be ordered back out to sea; Captain Waddell insisted on his ship’s rights according to internationally recognised rules of neutrality. The Governor agreed. Courtesy Photo Collection, State Library Victoria
The Shenandoah’s captain, Lieutenant Commander James Iredell Waddell (pictured circa 1864 wearing Confederate Navy uniform), was the quintessential Southern gentleman: tall, gracious of bearing, unfailingly punctual and courteous. He was also aloof and quick-tempered. Photo courtesy US Naval Historical Center
First Lieutenant John Grimball was one of six officers chosen by Waddell to attend the ball given in honour of the Shenandoah by the citizens of Ballarat. The event organisers were Americans who had made the gold-mining town their home. Photo courtesy Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Library of Congress
The Bulloch brothers, James Dunwoody (left, in uniform) and Irvine Stephens, were from a family of wealthy Savannah planters. On the outbreak of the Civil War, James based himself in Liverpool, from where he organised, among other things, the purchase of the Sea King, which was renamed the Shenandoah and repurposed as a Confederate commerce raider. Irvine served on CSS Alabama.
The resting place of the Shenandoah’s enigmatic captain. After Waddell realised he had been prosecuting a war that had ended months earlier, he said, ‘My life has been checkered from the dawn of my naval career.’ Photo courtesy Barry Cro
mpton
This etching depicts the Shenandoah off the coast of Alaska late in June 1865, discharging her sworn duty to wipe out the whaling marine of the enemy, which she did with deadly efficiency. The only problem was that Robert E. Lee had surrendered on 9 April 1865. Courtesy Photo Collection, State Library Victoria
Index of Searchable Terms
Abolition Bill See also slavery, abolition in Britain
abolitionists See also slavery, abolition
Aborigines
Abraham Lincoln
See Lincoln, Abraham
Adams, Francis
Adamson, Thomas
Adelaide (convict ship)
Adelaide (ship)
Adelaide Hills
Alabama
claim for Alabama damages payable by Britain to United States
Albert, Prince
role in defusing situation on Confederate mission to England
Albion hotel (Melbourne)
Alexander, David,
awarded rank of corporal
in the gun crew
return to Australia See also Australian Confederate recruits
Alfred Prince (Duke of Edinburgh)
attempted assassination in Sydney
Alina (ship)
capture
American Civil War
casualties
cessation of war
innovations of the war See also Confederate States of America
American slave states
amnesty granted to rebels by President of United States
Anderson, Jourdan
Anderson, Patrick Henry
Anderson, William T. (Bloody Bill)
Anna Jane (Danish ship)
Appropriation Act
Ascension Island
Aspinal, Butler C.
Australia
arrival of First Fleet
bushrangers
Constitution
federation
Immigration Restriction Act
insecurity and arrival of foreign warships
Australian confederate recruits
affidavit on recruitment of British subjects
death of George Canning
emergence of group of forty-two
five recruits in the gun crew
forty-two Melbourne recruits
return to Australia after the surrender See also CSS Shenandoah, under individual names
Australians
in American Civil War
identity
in New Zealand Wars
Ayers’ Rock (Uluru)
Ballarat ball
Barker, Fred
Barracouta (British ship)
Barry, Sir Redmond
Battle of Fort Pillow
Battle of Little Big Horn
Blanchard, William (US Consul)
blackbirding 3 See also cotton industry, Queensland: islander labour, Kanakas
Bloody Bill Anderson See Anderson, William T.
Booth, John Wilkes
Brayton, E.J.
Brazil
Breedlove Smith, William
Brisbin, James Sank
Britain
abolition of slavery
attitude on racism
attitude to Shenandoah
change of British public opinion on Shenandoah
claim for Alabama damages payable to United States
claim for destruction of William C.
Nye
recognition of Confederacy as a belligerent power
relations with Russia
relations with United States Confederate mission to England
Treaty of Washington
British Foreign Enlistments Act
Act to replace 1819 Act
infringement
Brown, Robert
Brunswick (ship)
Budwin, Florena
Bulloch, Irvin
Bulloch, James Dunwoody
as chief agent for Confederacy in
Britain
death
life after fall of Confederacy
President Roosevelt’s speech
suspected of a plot to kidnap President Lincoln
Camm, James
Campbell, John
Canning, George,
firing last shot of the war
in the gun crew
as sergeant of marines
sickness and death
See also Australian Confederate recruits
Cape Horn
Cape of Good Hope
Cape Town
Cape York Peninsula
Captain James Cook See Cook, James (Captain)
Carl Massacre See also cotton industry: Queensland
casualties of war
Centralia massacre
Chancellorsville
Charleston, fall of
Charter Oak (ship), capture
Cherbourg, Battle of
Cherokee Mounted Rifles, Oklahoma
Chew, Frank
China
Chinese
Australian perception and treatment
Clarenden, Earl
Cockburn, Alexander
Collier, Sir Robert
Confederate mission to England
Confederate flag (Stainless Banner)
Confederate prisoner of war camp
Confederate States of America battles
Alabama and Kearsarge
Bull Run (Manassas)
Cedar Creek
Chancellorsville
Charleston
Cherbourg
Cherokee Mounted Rifles
Choctaw Indian territory
Fort Pillow
Fort Sumter
Fredericksburg
Gettysburg
Nashville
Port Wilmington
Richmond
Savannah
Simpsonville (Florence Stockade)
birth of
Navy
Confederate Navy Day
submarines
warships
proclamation on grant of amnesty to rebels
removal of government See also American Civil War
withdrawal of belligerent rights by European powers See also American Civil War
Constitution
Australia
United States of America
convicts
arrival of Adelaide convict ship
reintroduction of transportation of convicts, proposal
Cook, James (Captain)
Corbett, Peter (Captain)
cotton diplomacy
cotton famine
cotton industry
Queensland
islander labour
United States
crisis in Confederacy
Crompton, Barry
Crook, Samuel (Little Sam)
joins the Shenandoah
return to Australia
Custor, George Armstrong (General, US Army)
D. Godfrey (ship)
Darling, Sir Charles Henry (Governor of Victoria)
Daughter of the Stars
Davidson, James (Charley)
charged with breaching Foreign Enlistment Act
Davis, Jefferson
capture and surrender
proclamation calling privateers
proclamation, Southern states to continue war
Delphine (ship)
D’Itajuba, Viscount
Donegal (British warship)
Doty, Henry Harrison
Dudley, Thomas
East Cape Bay (Dezhnev)
American whalers See also whaling ships
Eaves, William
Edward (whaler)
Edward Carey (ship)
El Dorado (ship)
Eldridge, John
Endeavour (ship)
Euphrates (ship)
Eureka Stockade
Farrar, Morris Mason
Favorite (ship)
objection to surrender
feigned haemoptysis and co
llapse
First Fleet
arrival in Sydney
anniversary celebration in Sydney
Florence Stockade
Florida (ship)
USS Flying Fish (exploring expedition)
Fort Denison, Sydney (Pinchgut Island)
Fort Pillow, Battle of
Francis, James
Fredericksburg, fall of
Freeman, Thomas
Gallipoli
General Pike (ship)
General Williams (ship)
Geneva Tribunal
Georgia plantations
Gettysburg
Glover, Franklin
Gonzales, Eugenio
Granger, Gordon
proclamation, freedom for slaves in Texas
Grant, Ulysses S.
Greene, Catherine (Caty)
Greene, Nathaniel
Grimball, John (Jack)
Gurner, Henry
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