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 ...

Weapons of mass destruction during the Civil War will be discussed at a special meeting of the Civil War Round Table of the Mid-Ohio Valley at 7 p.m. March 12 at the Knights of Columbus, 312 Franklin ...

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – Newly conserved artifacts from the H.L. Hunley will be on display in a new ‘Tools and Tides’ exhibit launching this weekend. The exhibit will feature never-before-seen ...

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.

Conservator Virginie Ternisien works at removing the encrustration from the hull of the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley at a conservation lab in North Charleston, S.C., on Jan. 27, 2015. Scientists ...

CHARLESTON, S.C.-- It's a historic day in the annals of submarine warfare. Monday marks the 150th anniversary of the attack by the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley on the Union blockade ship ...

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. – The hull of the first submarine in history to sink an enemy warship has been cleaned and revealed for the first time in 150 years. After a year of painstaking work, scientists ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The crew of the Civil War submarine HL Hunley likely died from airblast injuries, according to a study published August 23, 2017 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Rachel Lance from Duke ...

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 ...