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In 1865, during the turmoil and anguish of the American Civil War, a Confederate warship from the Southern states requested permission from Sir Charles Darling, the Governor of Victoria, to dock in the neutral harbour of Port Phillip Bay for repairs. On board the Shenandoah were eleven prisoners who had been taken from enemy ships, one of whom was the beautiful and imperious wife of a Northern Union captain. (Publisher's blurb, back cover).
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Epigraph: The enemy's distant whaling grounds have not been visited by us. His commerce constitutes one of his reliable sources of national wealth no less than one of his best schools for seamen, and we must strike it, if possible. If you can do no better, can you not send in so safe and secret a manner that your action will not be known until their blows are felt, two clipper sailing ships, lightly armed with judicious officers, against this commerce? - S. R. Mallory, Confederate Secretary of the Navy, to Captain J. D. Bulloch, CSN, August 1864.
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