In Cuba, a powerful Confederate warship reaches Havana from Lisbon in Portugal and learns that the war has ended

The French-built Confederate C.S.S. Stonewall had arrived in Nassau a few days earlier after sailing across the Atlantic from Portugal.  She reached Havana, Cuba and her commander, Captain Thomas Page, heard the war was over.  He sold the vessel to Spain, which then sold it on the the United States.  The U.S., in turn sold her to the Empire of Japan in 1869, where she was christened the Kötetsu and served until the 1880s. (By John Osborne)