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 ...

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 131 years, the CSS H.L. Hunley and its crew went unrecovered. The Confederate submarine was one of the most important naval artifacts in U.S. history. But its location was somewhere in the murky, ...

NORTH CHARLESTON, South Carolina -- The first submarine in history to sink an enemy warship is upright for the first time in almost 150 years, revealing a side of its hull not seen since it sank off ...

Born and built amid gray-cloaked secrecy during the American Civil War, the H.L. Hunley – the first submarine to sink an enemy ship – has held tight to its murky mysteries. The 150th anniversary of ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- The mystery of the CSS Hunley is one of those irresistible things, made all the more tempting to the scientific mind because the answers seem tantalizingly within reach. The old ...

Nine men, described by a Catholic priest as "the bravest of the brave," are another step closer to their final resting place, nearly 137 years after they lost their lives on the CSS Hunley. A private ...

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — Scientists in South Carolina began the painstaking job Wednesday of righting the Confederate submarine the CSS H.L. Hunley, which sank on its side during the Civil War after ...

Calvin Hart just had to see the replica of the CSS Hunley once, and he was hooked. Since then, for years, the Jacksonville man has been trying to get the full-scale replica of one of the world's ...

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.

Two of the most anticipated finds of the excavation of the CSS Hunley have been made: the remains of the ship's commander and the lantern that might have signaled the sinking of the USS Housatonic.

What: Underwater archaeologist Ralph Wilbanks and partners found and raised the Confederate submarine the CSS Hunley. He is a featured speaker at this year's show. When: 2, 4 and 6 p.m. Saturday; 1, 3 ...