Did you know that the final chapter of the American Civil War unfolded in Liverpool?📣
In November 1865, Captain James Iredell Waddell walked up the steps of Liverpool Town Hall, with a letter for the mayor surrendering his vessel, the CSS Shenandoah, to the British government!
ALT A black and white photo of a man in 1865 with slick back dark hair and a long dark moustache. He is wearing a suit jacket and shirt with a dark coloured bow tie.