After 150 years, Confederate submarine's hull again revealed

AP via Yahoo News ^ | 1/30/15 | BRUCE SMITH

[Kartographer]

A century and a half after it sank and a decade and a half after it was raised, scientists are finally getting a look at the hull of the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley, the first sub in history to sink an enemy warship.

What they find may finally solve the mystery of why the hand-cranked submarine sank during the Civil War.

"It's like unwrapping a Christmas gift after 15 years. We have been wanting to do this for many years now," said Paul Mardikian, senior conservator on the Hunley project.

[DoodleDawg]

iSome states, like the states of Indiana and Illinois were frank and blunt: "we don't want you here". All telegraphed a similar sentiment: "we don't know what to do with you".

So did all Southern states.

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

I appreciate you taking the time to respond, however my life is so busy at the moment that I am unable to spend any more time on long debates. Truly sorry about that. The debate was fun while it lasted, and maybe we can pick it up again some other time. For now we will just have to agree to disagree, ok? :-)

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

I appreciate you taking the time to respond, however my life is so busy at the moment that I am unable to spend any more time on long debates. Truly sorry about that. The debate was fun while it lasted, and maybe we can pick it up again some other time. For now we will just have to agree to disagree, ok? :-)

[1010RD]

Black migration north into industrial cities helped start unions to keep out that “cheap southern labor”. Northern cities were racist, but they were more modern, cities and weren’t the deep south.

There was a shoot out with a black doctor in Detroit, IIRC.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

Do you mean free blacks?

Yes. If you've read Huckleberry Finn, you'll remember that Jim's goal was to get to Cairo, Illinois, where he would be free.

[BroJoeK]

combat_boots: "Come April, we celebrate the 150th of the end of the Civil War."

This is all pretty far off topic, but.... ;-)

My work takes me once or twice a year to Appomattox Court House, Virginia.
April 9 is a Thursday in 2015, and here is a list of events there.

If duties allow, will try to attend...

Sunday, April 9, 1865 is also the anniversary of the little-remembered Battle of Fort Blakely, Mobile, Alabama, in which one of my fresh-off-the-boat, non-English speaking great-grandfathers, having served in the 119th Illinois Volunteer Infantry the entire war without serious injury, was wounded and crippled in his hand.
Someday I hope to visit that site too...

[BroJoeK]

1010RD: "Black migration north into industrial cities helped start unions to keep out that 'cheap southern labor'. "

I'm not saying that life for African-Americans was ever a bed of roses, with no thorns, anywhere here.
I'm only contending that pro-Confederate claims of blacks historically being treated better in the South than the North are not substantiated by any empirical data I know of.

Yes, in recent years many Northerners, doubtless including blacks, have migrated south for the warmer winter weather and... well, Southern hospitality.
But, to my knowledge that never happened in the past.

[onedoug]

...Hunley ping....

[Jack Straw from Wichita]

That’s the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia