Dear Civil War Roundtable Members,

I thought you might be interested in a review essay just published in American Heritage Magazine on my new book, “Sea of Gray: The Around-the-World Odyssey of the Confederate Raider Shenandoah.”

If the link below fails to work, please cut-and-paste the URL into your computer’s address bar:

http://www.americanheritage.com/places/articles/web/20060215-civil-war-confederacy-lincoln-shenan doah-james-waddell-tom-chaffin-sea-of%20gray-fremont-pirates.shtml The CSS Shenandoah was dispatched from England late in the Civil War to destroy Union whalers in the Arctic. During her 13-month 58,000-mile voyage, she destroyed 32 Union ships and became the only Confederate ship to circumnavigate the globe. And because word of the war's end was slow to reach to Arctic and she was still destroying ships in the Arctic two months after Appomattox, she was responsible for the last shots fired on behalf of the Confederacy. The book draws primarily on contemporary documents--logbooks, shipboard diaries and other materials--many of them appearing now for the first time in a historical narrative.

Sea of Gray is now in stores. The book is also available as an alternate selection of the Book of the Month Club, the History Book Club, the Military Book Club, and the American Compass Book Club. It may also be purchased from online booksellers, including www.amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com.

I’d be grateful if you would forward this message to friends and colleagues who have an affinity for Civil War and maritime stories. Thank you, and all the best in 2006.

Tom Chaffin