This Civil War Submarine Vanished for 136 Years [VIDEO]
A Civil War submarine powered by hand cranks and lit by candlelight. What could possibly go wrong? Meet the HL Hunley.
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SELECTED SOURCES/FURTHER READING
Chaffin, Tom.The H. L. Hunley: The Secret Hope of the Confederacy
Hill and Wang, 2010.Hicks, Brian. Sea of Darkness: Unraveling the Mysteries of the H.L. Hunley
Spry Publishing LLC, 2015.Hicks, Brian, and Kropf, Schuyler. Raising the Hunley: The Remarkable History and Recovery of the Lost Confederate SubmarinePresidio Press, 2003
Lance, Rachel. In the Waves: My Quest to Solve the Mystery of a Civil War Submarine. Dutton, 2020
The Friends of the Hunley hunley.org
“H. L. Hunley: Recovery Operations” history.navy.mil
“H.L. Hunley Site Assessment” | National Park Service PDF
“Humanitarian Exhumation at the Citadel’s Johnson Hagood Stadium” scholarcommons.sc.edu
“HUNLEY (C.S.S.)” numa.net
“Crewmen of Recovered Confederate Sub Are Honored at Burial” nytimes.com
“Putting a Face on Storied Subs Crew” washingtonpost.com