Meet Captain James Iredell of the Confederate commercial raider Shenandoah. His assignment was to destroy the commerce of the Union by sinking ships bound for the North. In this case, the word ‘north’ has a double meaning. One was the North, as in the Union, and the other is Alaska. After ‘rounding the horn’ at the tip of South America, he headed to Alaskan waters where he captured 38 ships and took more than 1,000 prisoners. Communications being what they were then, two-thirds of those ships were captured after the peace treaty in Appomattox had been signed. On June 22, 1865, 74 days after the surrender of the Confederacy, the Shenandoah fired the last shot of the Civil War. Believing he and his crew would be executed when they surrendered, the Shenandoah sailed to Liverpool, England, where they were the last Confederates to surrender, November 6, 1865.