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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Conservator Virginie Ternisien works at removing the encrustration from the hull of the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley at a ...

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 ...

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 ...

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - It’s been a quarter-century since the H.L. Hunley, once buried beneath Charleston Harbor, was raised from the deep, revealing a silent time capsule of Civil War history ...

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.