But what many people don't realize is that modern submarines have their origins in designs dating from the earliest years of the American Civil War. The world's first successful submarine attack ...

A blast-injury expert takes aim at the mystery of what sank the most famous—and lethal—submarine of the Civil War Rachel Lance - Author, Chamber Divers: The Untold Story of the D-Day ...

a 40-foot Civil War-era submarine that was the first submarine to sink an enemy ship in battle. After the Hunley and her crew of eight men fired a torpedo and sank the USS Housatonic in February ...

The Civil War, an epic nine-episode series by the award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and produced in conjunction with WETA, Washington, D.C., first aired in September of 1990 to an ...

Shipwreck hunters have discovered the remains of a famous American submarine that sank with 79 ... Union soldiers slaughtered during the Civil War may lie under a Kentucky soybean field, high ...