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CSS Hunley: The Greatest Undersea... Nine men in a rigged-out steam
boiler cranked out of Breach Inlet near Mt. Pleasant, S.C. and changed
naval history forever. It was not until 50 years later in 1914 that the
next ship would be brought down by a submarine. This crisply written
account is an excellent introduction to one of the most fascinating
subplots of the entire War for Southern Independence. |
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and Confederate Submarine Warfare... Most
Civil War enthusiasts have heard about the Hunley, the Confederate
submarine that sank the USS Housatonic on February 17, 1864. Less
well known, however, is that the Hunley was not alone in the water.
Both the Union and the Confederacy built submarines; many were operational
and patrolled for enemy ships |
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| The
Hunley Produced for Turner Network Television
and originally broadcast in the summer of 1999, The Hunley is a
straightforward, engrossing historical drama focusing on a little-known
chapter of the Civil War: the introduction of the submarine into American
naval warfare off the shore of war-torn Charleston, South Carolina, in
1864. |
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The
Confederate Navy : The Ships, Men... Dr. Still, the dean of
Confederate naval historians, is the proud editor of this tour-de-force
overview of the Confederate Navy. His contributors include Bob Holcombe of
the Confederate Naval Museum, Dave Sullivan, well-known researcher of the
Marine Corps in the Civil War, and virtually every authority on the
Confederate Navy and the naval Civil War writing today. Well-coordinated,
well-illustrated, well done! Small wonder that it's advanced by the Naval
Institute Press, which has a tradition of promoting and publishing fine
books.
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Raising
the Hunley : The Remarkable... The history of the Confederate
submarine H. L. Hunley is as astonishing as its disappearance. On
February 17, 1864, after a legendary encounter with a Union battleship,
the iron “fish boat” vanished without a trace somewhere off the coast of
South Carolina. For more than a century the fate of the Hunley
remained one of the great unsolved mysteries of the Civil War. Then, on
August 8, 2000, with thousands of spectators crowding Charleston Harbor,
the Hunley was raised from the bottom of the sea and towed ashore.
Now, award-winning journalists Brian Hicks and Schuyler Kropf offer new
insights into the Hunley’s final hours and recount the amazing true
story of its rescue.
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Voyage of the Hunley This
item will be published in November 2001. |
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| The
Hunley: Submarines, Sacrifice, and... The Hunley: Submarines,
Sacrifice & Success in the Civil War" (revised edition) by Mark Ragan,
256 pages (8.5x11). This well-researched book is extremely timely, as the
Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley, which lay off Sullivan's Island near
Charleston, South Carolina, was raised recently from its watery grave. The
Hunley was the first submarine in history to sink an enemy warship |
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