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The H. L. Hunley

Name: The H. L. Hunley
Author: Tom Chaffin

The Secret Hope of the Confederacy

Tom Chaffin,

353 pages
English
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eBook - ePub

The H. L. Hunley

The Secret Hope of the Confederacy

Tom Chaffin,

About this book

This revelatory account of the creation and wartime actions of the Confederacy's submarine is "a classic of Civil War history" (Clive Cussler).

On the evening of February 17, 1864, the Confederacy's H. L. Hunley sank the Union's formidable sloop of war the USS Housatonic and became the first submarine in world history to sink an enemy ship. But after accomplishing such a feat, the Hunley and her crew of eight also vanished beneath the cold Atlantic waters off Charleston, South Carolina. For generations, the legend of the Hunley grew as searchers prowled the harbor, looking for remains. Even after the submarine was definitively located in 1995 and recovered five years later, those legends have continued to flourish.

In a tour de force of document-sleuthing and insights gleaned from the excavation of this remarkable vessel, the distinguished Civil War–era historian Tom Chaffin presents the most thorough telling of the Hunley's story possible. Of panoramic breadth, this saga begins long before the submarine was even assembled and follows the tale into the boat's final hours and through its recovery in 2000. Engaging and groundbreaking, The H. L. Hunley provides the definitive account of a fabled craft.

"The boldest and most powerful book yet written on the saga of the H. L. Hunley . Each detail is sharply etched and dramatically told for a compelling read." —Clive Cussler

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