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Australian confederates : how 42 Australians joined the rebel cause and fired the last shot in the American Civil War / Terry Smyth.
Publication details: North Sydney NSW : Ebury Press, 2015.Description: viii, 371 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780857986559 :
- Australian confederates : how forty two Australians joined the rebel cause and fired the last shot in the American Civil War
- How 42 Australians joined the rebel cause and fired the last shot in the American Civil War
- Shenandoah (Cruiser)
- Confederate States of America. Navy
- Confederate States of America. Navy
- Shenandoah (Cruiser)
- Australians -- Confederate States of America
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, Australian
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Naval operations
- Confederate States of America -- History
- Australian
- 973.757 23
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 973.757 SMY | Available | 059332 |
Total reserves: 0
Includes bibliographical references (pages [331]-355) and index.
In the summer of 1865, when a Confederate warship sailed into the port of Melbourne, 42 men secretly enlisted to fight for the South in the American Civil War. On the notorious raider Shenandoah ? scourge of the Yankee merchant fleet ? they sailed off to adventure and controversy, and fired the last shot of the war. Of the 42 men who signed on in Melbourne as petty officers, seamen and marines, some returned home, others dropped out of sight and one died aboard ship ? the last man to die in the service of the Confederacy. This is their story.
