[billbears]

after ramming explosives into the Union blockade ship Housatonic and becoming the first submarine to sink an enemy warship.

Thanks for the bump, interesting read and makes me proud to be a Southerner.

[Non-Sequitur]

And, if this story is true, was also the first submarine to sink itself due to dumb design flaw. Thus eginning a tradition still carried on today by sumbarines like the Kursk.