BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 14.0 MIMEDIR//EN VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH X-MS-OLK-FORCEINSPECTOROPEN:TRUE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:16011104T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:16010311T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20151102T205307Z DESCRIPTION:JHU/APL Colloquium - www.jhuapl.edu/colloquium\n\nTOPIC: A Con federate Biography: The Cruise of the CSS Shenandoah\n\nSPEAKER: Dwight H ughes\, Naval Institute Press\n\n“The cruise of a ship is a biography\, ” wrote the Confederacy’s foremost sailor\, Raphael Semmes. A ship can be\, therefore\, a central character in a life story through which we vie w the momentous past more clearly. \n\nFrom October 1864 to November 1865\ , the CSS Shenandoah carried the Civil War around the globe to the ends of the earth through every extreme of sea and storm. Her officers represente d a cross section of the Confederacy from Old Dominion first families thro ugh the Deep South aristocracy to a middle-class Missourian: a nephew of R obert E. Lee\; a grandnephew of founder George Mason\; a son-in-law to Rap hael Semmes\; grandsons of men who fought at George Washington’s side\; an uncle of Theodore Roosevelt.\n\nThey considered themselves Americans\, Southerners\, rebels\, and warriors embarking on the voyage of their lives \, defending their country as they understood it\, and pursuing a difficul t\, dangerous mission in which they succeeded spectacularly after it no lo nger mattered.\n\nShenandoah was a magnificent ship. Her commerce-raiding mission was a central component of U.S. Navy heritage and a watery form of asymmetric warfare in the spirit of John Mosby\, Bedford Forrest\, and W. T. Sherman. She contributed to the diplomatic maelstrom of the Civil War\ , as evidenced by a contentious visit to Melbourne\, Australia.\n\nLater\, at the Pacific island of Pohnpei\, Southern gentlemen enjoyed a tropical holiday while their country lay dying\, mingling with an exotic warrior so ciety that was more like them than they knew. Their observations looking b ack from the most remote and alien surroundings imaginable\, along with th e viewpoints of those they encountered\, provide unique perspectives of th e conflict.\n\nFinally\, Shenandoah invaded the north\, the deep cold of t he Bering Sea. She fired the last gun of the conflict and set crystal wate rs aglow with flaming Yankee whalers. Seven months after Lee’s surrender \, Shenandoah limped into Liverpool. Captain Waddell lowered the last Conf ederate banner without defeat or surrender. This is\, as Admiral Semmes de scribes\, a biography of a cruise and a microcosm of the Confederate-Ameri can experience.\n\n\nDwight Hughes graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy i n 1967 and served twenty years as a Navy surface warfare officer on many o ceans in ships ranging from destroyer to aircraft carrier and with river f orces in Vietnam (Bronze Star for Meritorious Service\, Purple Heart). Bui lding on a lifetime of study in naval history\, he lives and writes in Nok esville\, Virginia.\n DTEND;TZID="Eastern Standard Time":20160520T150000 DTSTAMP:20151102T205307Z DTSTART;TZID="Eastern Standard Time":20160520T140000 LAST-MODIFIED:20151102T205307Z LOCATION:Parsons Auditorium PRIORITY:5 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY;LANGUAGE=en-us:Colloquium - Dwight Hughes - A Confederate Biography : The Cruise of the CSS Shenandoah TRANSP:OPAQUE UID:040000008200E00074C5B7101A82E008000000001027C88E6DE6D001000000000000000 0100000006ACE252FC09E234AB701D0B78456485F X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\n\n
\n\nJHU/APL Colloquium - www.jhuapl.edu/colloquium
\n\nTOPIC:  \; A Confederate Biogra phy: The Cruise of the CSS< /B> Shenandoah
\n\n\n\n
SPAN>SPEAKER: \; Dwight Hughes\, Naval Ins titute Press
\n\n\n\n
“The cruise of a ship is a biogra phy\,” wrote the Confederacy’s foremost sailor\, Raphael Semmes. A ship can be\, the refore\, a central character in a life story through which we view the momentous< /SPAN> past more clearly.
\n\nFrom October 1864 to November 1865\, the CSS Shenandoah SPAN> carried the Civil War around the globe to the en ds of the earth through every extreme of sea and storm. Her officers represented a cross section of th e Confederacy from Old Dominion first families through the Deep South aristocracy to a m iddle-class Missourian: a nephew of Robert E. Lee\; a grandnephew of founder George Mason\; a son-in-l aw to Raphael Semmes\; grandsons of men SPAN> who fought at George Washington’s side\; an un cle of Theodore Roosevelt.
\n\n\n\n
They considered themselves Americans\,
Southerners\, rebels\, and
Shenandoah<
/SPAN> was a magnificent ship. Her commerce-raiding missio
n Australia.
Lat
er\, at the Pacific island of Pohnpei\, Southern gentlemen enjoyed<
/SPAN> a tropical holiday wh
ile their country lay dying\, mingling with an exotic warrior society that was more like
them than they knew. Their observations looking back from the most remote and alien surroundings imag
inable\, along with the viewpoints of those they
\n\n
B>
\n\nDwight Hughes