To: Brad from Tennessee
They do not teach this in high school American history class.
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.
To: SamAdams76
The rebels. us, even built a submarine in the Revolutionary War... not that it did much. lol.
10 posted on
02/18/2014 4:30:07 PM PST by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
To: SamAdams76
“They do not teach this in high school American history class.”
If I’m teaching it, I do. :)
14 posted on
02/18/2014 4:54:42 PM PST by
GenXteacher
(You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
To: SamAdams76
But they did teach about the Monitor and the Merrimack - which led me to explore on my own. It was part of those explorations that brought me to the story of the Hunley.
I have a movie in my collection - The Hunley. - about the creation and deployment of The Hunley. It took some big brass ones to go down in that thing!
32 posted on
02/18/2014 8:32:11 PM PST by
rockrr
(Everything is different now...)
To: SamAdams76
48 posted on
02/19/2014 8:08:53 AM PST by
Ditto
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