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The Last Battle of the Civil War, in Alaska

Having depleted their own stocks, Atlantic whalers engaged in a rush to Alaska in the mid-19th Century. During the Civil War, whale oil sustained northern industry and the Confederacy set out to disable the Yankee whaling industry. They dispatched Captain James Waddell of the Confederate States Navy to England where he acquired the gunship Sea King, which they commissioned as the CSN Shenandoah. Waddell proceeded to Alaska where he wiped out most of the New Bedford whaling fleet, only to discover that Lee had already surrendered to Grant at Appomattox. Hear the story from the late, great storyteller Syd Wright in this excerpt from John Sabella's 1999 documentary Syd Wright's Alaska: https://www.johnsabella.com/detail.la...