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Looking like a submerged locomotive, the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley poked stealthily toward the Union ships blockading Charleston harbor on the night of Feb. 17, 1864, and rammed a harpoon-like torpedo into the U.S.S. Housatonic. Then, as the Hunley backed away under the power of its hand-cranked propeller, it triggered the torpedo's charge, sinking the Yankee warship in about three minutes. It was the first enemy ship ever lost to a submarine. But Rebel jubilation was fleeting. Minutes later the Hunley unexpectedly sank, creating a mystery that has endured to this...
...only 30 ft. of water some 4 1/2 miles offshore by a dive team sponsored by novelist Clive Cussler (Raise the Titanic!) in 1995, the Hunley's remains will be hoisted from their muddy grave, if all goes well, in the next few weeks and eventually displayed at the Charleston Museum. That will not only be a splendid feat of underwater salvage but may also offer Civil War buffs an answer to what happened on that fateful night 136 years...
...group of wealthy Louisiana businessmen who had ties to the Confederate secret service. Their first was intentionally scuttled when New Orleans fell to Union forces in 1861. Their second sank in rough seas off Mobile in February 1863. The Hunley, completed in July 1863, was dispatched to Charleston, where it sank twice on earlier trips, killing 13 men, including one of its sponsors, Horace L. Hunley, for whom it was named. It was nicknamed the "Peripatetic Coffin," a fitting name, as it was only 4 ft. wide and just over 4 ft. high, crewmen had to sit hunched single file...
Although also losing to eventual champion and No. 2 St. Mary's, the Crimson romped over the rest of the field, beating second-place and No. 9 Georgetown in head-to-head competition and defeating No. 1 Southern California, No. 12 Stanford, No. 10 College of Charleston, Washington, No. 20 Texas, Michigan, Eckerd and Wisconsin, which finished in order from fifth through 12th...
David S. Stewart Charleston, Ill. Selling crack...