 William Conway Whittle, Waddell's right-hand man, was the ship's executive officer.The "Shenandoah", sailing south then east across the Indian Ocean and into the South Pacific, was in Micronesia at the Island of Ponape (called Ascension Island by Whittle) at the time of the surrender of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia to the Union forces on April 9, 1865.Waddell had already captured and disposed of thirteen Union merchantmen.