Editing CSS Shenandoah (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:CSS Shenandoah-art.jpg|thumb|240px|19th-century artwork depicting ''Shenandoah'' under sail]]
''Shenandoah'' had remained at sea for 12 months and 17 days, traversed 58,000 miles (carrying the Confederate flag around the globe for the only time) and sank or captured 38 ships, mostly whalers, all of them American civilian merchant vessels. Waddell took close to one thousand prisoners without a single war casualty among his crew; two men died of disease. The ship was never involved in conflict against any [[Union Navy|Union Naval]] vessel.<ref>Baldwin, p. 302</ref> The Confederate cruiser claimed more than 20 prizes valued at nearly $1,400,000 ({{Inflation|US|1400000|1865|fmt=eq|r=-5}}).<ref>Baldwin, 225</ref> In an important development in international law, the U.S. government pursued claims (collectively called the [[Alabama Claims]]) against the British government and, following a court of arbitration, won heavy damages.

===Battle ensign===
[[File:Naval ensign of the Confederate States of America (1863-1865).svg|thumb|240px|The [[Flags of the Confederate States of America#Naval flags|Second Confederate Navy Ensign]], 1863–1865 ([http://moc.pastperfect-online.com/39589cgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=B4924484-5EC2-499F-A16A-627597799300;type=101 MOC Catalog# 0985.03.00194])]]
The [[battle ensign]] of CSS ''Shenandoah'' is unique amongst the flags of the Confederate States of America as it was the only Confederate flag to circumnavigate the Earth during the Confederacy, and it was the last Confederate flag to be lowered by a combatant unit in the Civil War (in mid-river on the River Mersey at Liverpool, UK, on November 6, 1865).<ref>Baldwin, 319</ref>

''Shenandoah''{{'}}s battle ensign has been in the [[Museum of the Confederacy]]'s collection since 1907 and is currently on display. Lieutenant Dabney [Minor] Scales CSN, gave the flag to a cousin, Eliza Hull Maury, for safekeeping. Eliza Hull Maury was a daughter of, and Richard Launcelot Maury was the eldest son of, Commodore [[Matthew Fontaine Maury]]. Colonel [[Richard Launcelot Maury]] CSA, Eliza's brother, brought the flag from England in 1873, and donated it to the museum in 1907. The flag itself measures {{convert|88|x|136|in|cm|abbr=out}}.<ref name="MOC">{{cite web|url=http://www.moc.org/site/DocServer/Flag_Table_for_Website.pdf?docID=5741|title=0985.03.0194|year=2010|work=Museum of the Confederacy (MOC) Collections|publisher=Museum of the Confederacy|pages=Accession# 0985.03.0194|access-date=23 January 2010|location=Richmond, Virginia|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100703055335/http://www.moc.org/site/DocServer/Flag_Table_for_Website.pdf?docID=5741|archive-date=3 July 2010}}</ref><ref>source: Robert F. Hancock, Director of Collections & Senior Curator, The Museum of the Confederacy</ref>

From the Southern Historical Society Papers:

{{blockquote|The flag of the Shenandoah, reverently preserved by the late Colonel Richard Launcelot Maury, C. S. A., son of Commissioner [[Matthew Fontaine Maury]], was recently deposited with the Confederate Memorial Literary Society, and is preserved in the Museum Building at Richmond, Va.—Ed.<ref>[[s:Page:Southern Historical Society Papers volume 35.djvu/272|Southern Historical Society Papers volume 35]]</ref>}}