It wasn't until I was in my 30s that I learned about this story. Pretty amazing they had submarine warfare during the Civil War. But they did.
the wrong side won in 1865
I’ve seen the Hunley in person at the Warran Lasch Conservation Center in Charleston, before the interior was even fully excavated.
I thought I would mention the two submarines that I have visited in the United States. They were happy times as myself and wife from England, took full advantage of being at the border in Canada.
At Muskegon, Michigan lying at dock is the USS Silversides. The submarine was said to be 75% operative. People can go aboard. If anyone saw the film with the late Alan Hale, it told of a crew member with appendicitis. This in WW2. From a text book, the cook prepared his knives for an impromptu operation. The man survived.
Next to the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. It was the U505, a German submarine that surrendered to US naval personnel, at the surrender of Germany. They were taken off and went aboard a US naval vessel. The last crewman tried to scuttle the sub, by taking out the filter device. The American sailors jumped aboard and fixed it. The whole thing is in Chicago.
So long ago, I hope my information is still pertinent.
Amazing that a sub existed in 1865. I was even more amazed that the first trans-Atlantic cable was laid at about the same time.
The Democrat Slaver Party South of old is dead - long live the new Christian Conservative South of the free!
The Democrat Slaver Party of the 1800's has migrated North, South, East and West has had and still has this evil Slavery mentality in which it has not turned away from even before the Civil War. It has changed for the worse - it is worse now than before. We would do better to remind people of the Democrat Slaver Party’s history of not only Slavery, but of their racism, their KKK, their Progressivism to Socialism, their Communism, their hatred for god and Bible, their holocaust of babies, etc. They may now claim that they abhor the likes of the Slavery of old, but in reality they just use different methods for the same means; some more ruthless then that of the 1800’s. The Democrat Slaver Party as a whole is evil and indefensible, the whole being how they were and how they are (worse) today.
And before those of you who try to justify the slaver Democrats of the Confederacy by saying that the Republicans have also done evil, let me remind you that The Democrat Slaver Party has historically been the Party of Progressivism and the Republicans the Party of (in the modern US definition) Conservatism.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/08/06/The-Pro-Slavery-Roots-of-the-Modern-Left
Sure, the Republican Party has had its ebbs and flows; but has never held long a position that is so abominable that the Party should be abandoned. Plus, we have the Tea Party making progress within the Republican Party. On the other hand, the Democrat Party has had many, and held on to many, evil ideals as their foundation. Furthermore; having a right to do evil does not justify an evil – as the Democrat Slaver Party has and is still doing.
For these reasons; the Democrat Party should be abandoned and never be defend and/or justified – past or present. No one should want to defend the Democrat Slavers of then and now!
How they kept getting a crew for the darned thing certainly surpasses my understanding. If I were a Confederate soldier and someone came up to me and said “We’ve got this new thing called a submarine that we need a crew for. It’s killed its last two crews but we think we may have worked the bugs out. The way it works is you go out and ram a ship with a bomb and then try to get away. Who’s in?” I think I would have said “No thanks. I think I’d rather find a hill to charge up somewhere.”
