The only Confederate ship to circumnavigate the globe, the cruiser Shenandoah was the last of a group of commerce raiders deployed to prey on Union merchant ships. The ship's log and Captain James Waddell's notes are well preserved, and a number of the Shenandoah's officers kept journals. One of the most significant, by Lieutenant William Whittle, is presented here, with annotations from other journals, the official records and logs, and newspaper accounts of the Shenandoah's activities.