SEPTEMBER 16TH, 1865: The CSS Shenandoah, Lt. Waddell, rounded Cape Horn and entered theAtlantic Ocean enroute to Liverpool, England. In the Pacific, the Shenandoah had struck the New England whaling industry a blow as that administered to the English whaling industry in 1813 by the USS Essex, commanded by Captain David Porter, the father of Civil War Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter.
There was a lot of truth in the boast made by Waddell in later years when he said, "I made New England suffer."
--Old B-R'er
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