Thursday, April 22, 2004

More on the Hunley

Added the following:

Confederate Commerce-Destroyers. The Blockade of the Confederacy - excerpt from 1898 article in The Century; includes claim that divers found the torpedo boat on the bottom "at a distance of many yards from the Housatonic."

The Cigar Boat - excerpt from "The Confederate Torpedo Service," an 1898 article in The Century; includes claim that divers found the boat "lying near the wreck of the noble ship she had destroyed."

Has the Day of the Great Navies Passed? - excerpt from 1877 article by Isaac Newton in The Galaxy