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Bruce Smith / AP
The Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley sits in a conservation tank after a steel truss that had surrounded it was removed on Thursday.
Randall Hill / Reuters
Senior conservator Paul Mardikian checks over the stern of the Civil War submarine H.L. Hunley on Thursday.
Bruce Smith / AP
The first clear view of the sub since it sank in 1864 off the South Carolina coast.
Reuters reports: NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — Confederate Civil War vessel H.L. Hunley, the world's first successful combat submarine, was unveiled in full and unobstructed for the first time on Thursday, capping a decade of careful preservation.
"No one alive has ever seen the Hunley complete. We're going to see it today," engineer John King said as a crane at a Charleston conservation laboratory slowly lifted a massive steel truss covering the top of the submarine.
About 20 engineers and scientists applauded as they caught the first glimpse of the intact 42-foot-long (13-meter-long) narrow iron cylinder, which was raised from the ocean floor near Charleston more than a decade ago. The public will see the same view, but in a water tank to keep it from rusting.
Related: Work of rotating Confederate sub H.L. Hunley nears completion
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Most of you are correct and most of you are wrong!!!!
It is 2012, not th 1860's. Historians are human and accountable to opinion and interprtation.
Think about it>???? In the 1860's a woman couldnt go to a slaoon or show "skin" unless considered a "hussy".
We tend to view history aas we live today.
Things change!!!!
If you look back through history, slavery has always been there. Who do you think built the pyramids???? Why would Moses want to "free" the Isrialites???
The Native Americans practiced it.
Slavery certainly had a great part in OUR civil war. BUT....it was a States right to choose that was the issue
Not to continue this sideline of this thread, I will cease.
The CSS Hundley, was the first submarine warship to sink an enemy vessel, the USS Housatonic, in Charlston harbor.
The Turtle was the first submarine vessel to go submarine.
BOTH are historical engineering marvels!!
Our safefty today lies in honor of those great engineers and crews.
Without the "prowlers of the Deep today, we lay prey to many a danger.
Again, times change idea.....would you rather drive a Ford or a team of mules????
Like in most wars they both thought that they were right and on some levels they were but that doesn't that the good guys didn't win and that we are all better off for it. But holly smokes that sub is crazy that any one had the stones to get in it. When the first crew died the second crew had bigger stones and then the third crew must have been... WOW!!!
It is in amazing condition still today!!!
And thus the prophecy was fulfilled, "The south will rise again".
Sorry, maybe I will provoke a little...I see this from an european point of view:
Interesting that the head of U.S. citizens in the north and south states still exists. Especially the claims for territory....considering that all Americans except the real native americans are immigrants.
(I don´t want to say that I´m better then anybody...just thinking about it)
all Europeans are immigrants as well since all life evolved in Africa,according to the scientists.
Most everyone here needs a real history lesson. If you read the letters of Abraham Lincoln to his friends, he didn't care if you owned a slave or not. In fact he DID own slaves until he decided slavery was bad.
His letters also stated if he could keep the north and the south together without having to go through all the fighting he would have in a heartbeat however fighting between the north and the south was not a popular idea since even the northern states believed all states should be self governed.
Abraham Lincoln decided this could not be. All the states should fall under the DIRECT control of the one central federal government. This allowed a small group of people to decide what was good for the entire nation. Much like it is now. However, the south being more agricultural and the north being more industrial, the north felt they were much more intelligent than those "farmers". This gave them a bit of a better than ya'll mentality.
It was the decision to go to war under the guise of to free the slaves that drew the union together and fight for a common goal.
Man, i didn't know so many redneck hillbillies knew how to use computers. Color me impressed :-D