a Royal Navy detachment and the crew. CSS Shenandoah had struck her colors twice. This marked the last surrender of the American Civil War and the last official lowering of the Confederate flag. The very last act of the Civil War was Captain Waddell walking up the steps of Liverpool Town Hall with a letter to present to the mayor surrendering his ship to the UK government. In so doing, Shenandoah became the only Confederate warship to circumnavigate the globe. The United States Naval War Records published in 1894: After the surrender, the CSS Shenandoah was berthed in the partially constructed Herculaneum Dock awaiting her fate. Once the international legalities were settled, she was turned over to the United States government. Fate of the crew After the surrender of Shenandoah to the British government, a decision had to be made of what to do with the Confederate crew, knowing the consequences of piracy charges. Clearly many of the crew originated from the United Kingdom and its colonies and three had swum ashore in the cold November waters fearing the worst. After a full investigation by law officers of the Crown, it was decided that the officers and crew did not infringe the rules of war or the laws of nations to justify being held as prisoners, so they were unconditionally released. Lieutenant Commander James I. Waddell of North Carolina First Lieutenant and Executive Officer, W.C. Whittle* of Virginia Lieutenant John Grimball of South Carolina Lieutenant Sidney Smith Lee* Jr. of Virginia Lieutenant Francis Thornton Chew of Missouri Lieutenant Dabney Minor Scales of Mississippi Sailing Master Irvine S. Bulloch of Georgia Passed Midshipman Orris Applewaith Browne* of Virginia Passed Midshipman John Thompson Mason* of Virginia Surgeon Charles E. Lining of South Carolina Assistant Surgeon F.J. McNulty of District of Columbia Paymaster William Breedlove Smith of Louisiana Chief Engineer M. O'Brien of Louisiana Assistant Engineer Codd of Maryland Master's mate John Minor of Virginia Master's Mate Lodge Colton of Maryland Master's Mate Cornelius E. Hunt of Virginia Boatswain George Harwood of England Gunner Guy of England Carpenter O'Shea of Ireland Sailmaker Henry Alcott of England Sometime in December 1865, crew members S.S. Lee, Orris M. Brown, John T. Mason and W.C. Whittle sailed from Liverpool to Buenos Aires, via Bahia, Rio de Janeiro and Montevideo. After prospecting for a while, they went to Rosario, upon Paraná River, and near there bought a