NORTH CHARLESTON — Capt. George E. Dixon was determined to sink the USS Housatonic, located at the entrance to Charleston Harbor, and help break the Union blockade. On the night of Feb 17, 1864, he ...

For more than a century, the CSS Hunley rested at the bottom of the ocean just outside Charleston harbor, its crew entombed, its hull gradually encased in hardening encrustations. When it was raised ...

Originally built in 1863 for the Confederate Army, the H.L. Hunley became the world's first successful combat submarine. It was suddenly lost at sea in 1864 and remained so until 1995 when it was ...

More clues of the H.L. Hunley mystery are being revealed during conservation of the American Civil War submarine. On Wednesday, researchers in a North Charleston, South Carolina, laboratory unveiled ...

The demise of the H.L. Hunley, the Confederate submarine and the first to sink an enemey warship, has been a mystery to researchers since it disappeared in 1864. Until now. Researchers believe they ...

Cheers rose when the H.L. Hunley broke the ocean's surface for the first time in more than a century. Since it vanished during a 1864 naval battle, the Confederate submarine had sat on the seafloor ...

In writing a column about the cause of death of the Confederate submarine crew members on the CSS Hunley in Charleston Harbor, S.C., it was pointed out to me that it is possible than crewman James A.

One of the great military mysteries in American history might now be solved by a Duke University graduate student after three years of research. Rachel Lance and her colleagues dedicated their ...

Researchers say they’ve resolved the 150-year mystery of what happened to crewmembers on the famous Civil War submarine H.L. Hunley, the first ever to sink an enemy warship during combat. Their ...

LOS ANGELES — A new CD created by record producers Skip Haynes and Dana Walden, with lyrics and music inspired by the exploits of the famed Confederate undersea diving boat CSS H.L. Hunley, which ...

The dead submarine crew hadn’t moved from their stations for nearly 150 years when the vessel was raised from the ocean in 2000. Whatever killed them happened so suddenly that they never made a run ...

Cheers rose when the H.L. Hunley broke the ocean's surface for the first time in more than a century. Since it vanished during a 1864 naval battle, the Confederate submarine had sat on the seafloor ...