biography
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Waddell, James (Iredell)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1824–86)
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| biography:
| US naval officer, born in Pittsboro, North Carolina, USA. He served in the US Navy (1841–62) and then the Confederate States Navy (1862–5). He commanded the Confederate raider Shenendoah on a 58 000 mi, around-the-globe voyage (1864–5) and decimated the New England whaling fleet in the Pacific Ocean. Following an amnesty, he returned to the USA and engaged in commercial sailing. |
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