Marine archaeologists rescued the shipwrecked H.L. Hunley (above, a computer rendering) in August 2000 more than 135 years after it sank during the Civil War. Courtesy of Friends of the Hunley One was ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. During the Civil War, the North imposed a suffocating blockade of a number of key Confederate ports. The South ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Crews raised a history-making Civil War submarine from the waters off the coast of Charleston in August of 2000. Confederates built the HL Hunley to help break the Union’s ...

On a summer day 25 years ago, the Lowcountry witnessed something that seemed straight out of a movie: the careful lifting of a 19th-century submarine from the depths of the Atlantic Ocean. The ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — The H.L. Hunley is commemorating the 162nd anniversary of its groundbreaking Civil War mission, when the submarine became the first vessel of its kind to sink an enemy ...

20 pivotal battles, including the introduction of ironclad warships, during the Civil War that permanently changed American ...

Hundreds of spectators watched as the Confederate H.L. Hunley submarine was raised off of Sullivan's Island in August 2000. Thousands more have visited the historic sub housed in North Charleston ...

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - It’s been a quarter-century since the H.L. Hunley, once buried beneath Charleston Harbor, was raised from the deep, revealing a silent time capsule of Civil War history ...

The gold coin said to have saved the life of a Confederate soldier at the Battle of Shiloh has been recovered from the wreckage of the Civil War submarine H.L. Hunley, salvagers said Thursday. The ...