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 ...

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – It has been 157 years since the H.L. Hunley submarine sank off the coast of Charleston. The nearly 40-foot Confederate submarine, named after inventor Horace Lawson ...

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 ...

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.

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, ...

CLEMSON, S.C. (WCIV) — Clemson researchers are continuing to look for reasons why theConfederate H.L. Hunley submarine sank back in 1864. In a release on Wednesday, researchers said the Hunley's air ...

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 ...

NORTH CHARLESTON, SC (WCSC) - Crews working to conserve the world's first successful combat submarine say they have discovered human remains inside the crew compartment. The H. L. Hunley sank the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...