The Last Flag Furled

On August 17, 1863, the CSS Shenandoah was launched, quickly becoming one of the most successful ships in the Confederate Navy. Circumnavigating the globe, and capturing or sinking 38 Union ships (mostly civilian whaling ships out of Massachusetts) it wouldn’t be until November 6, 1865–seven months after Lee’s surrender and five months after the surrender of Stand Watie, the last Confederate hold-out–that the Shenandoah would dock, under a Confederate Flag. When at last the flag was lowered before a detachment of the Royal Navy, it became the last Confederate Flag officially brought down, and the walk of the ship’s captain to the Liverpool Town Hall to offer a letter of surrender became the last act of the War.

[Source: CSS Shenandoah – Wikipedia]