http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20...source=RSS

Also
http://news.yahoo.com/experts-clues-sink...55343.html

Isn't interesting that a discovery like this completing changes the story as we knew it? A little bit unsettling too. As I was once told by a college professor: "try to avoid hardening of the categories!"

Fascinating! Just goes to show that new things are being discovered every day which change how we look at history!

Several years ago Vicki and I were in Charleston, and we visited the Hunley. A "must see" IMO. I am in awe of the courage it took those men to get into such a small place and go on that mission.

Roger: You are so right. I mean the thought of encasing yourself in that thing and going into battle-courage beyond belief.

I thought that the movie made a few years back was excellent.

Craig

Craig, I missed that one. There was a movie?

(02-05-2013 09:42 AM)LincolnMan Wrote:  Craig, I missed that one. There was a movie?

Bill,
Here is a commercial from 1999.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFYSZqDVvwc

Joe

That's it!

Vicki and I had a discussion at breakfast this morning. When we visited the Hunley in Charleston years ago I vaguely remember seeing the replica sub on display that Turner made for his movie. I thought it was in the same building that houses the Hunley. Vicki remembers no such thing. Anybody know? ("Seeing things" that don't exist wouldn't be anything new for me.)

I agree with the comments on the Hunley movie on TNT; it was a good one.

There have also been at least a couple shows on The History Channel in the last decade on the Hunley. One was on the original efforts to raise the ship (in 1995, I think).

The Hunley is a story that never really goes away, and I'm glad it doesn't.

Those guys were dedicated for"The Cause".My niece is married to a man on an Atomic Sub.Sailors are larger on the subs of today than then! I had trouble getting thru a WW11-B-24 bomber at 6'225lbs.I wonder what size the Hunley sailors were?

I did some of my own research on the Hunley's crew.They were 8 in number and between 18 and 20yrs of age.But,the most remarkable piece of research was that they were around 6'tall!It was stated that they all doubled up like a doughnut.More to come!!!

(02-05-2013 01:49 PM)JB Banning Wrote:  

(02-05-2013 09:42 AM)LincolnMan Wrote:  Craig, I missed that one. There was a movie?

Bill,
Here is a commercial from 1999.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFYSZqDVvwc

Joe

Thanks! That looks really good. I see actor Sutherlund in a Confederate uniform. Whom does he play?

Bill,

He played Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard who apparently wanted to cancel the mission after the first two crews were drowned in trials.

Joe