TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

Intriguing article by a biomedical researcher at Duke University, whose research suggests that the crew of the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley died from the effects of their own torpedo. … after an exhaustive three-year Duke study that involved repeatedly setting blasts near a scale model, shooting authentic weapons at historically accurate iron plate and doing […]

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Tony Horowitz (Confederates in the Attic) has an article on “150 Years of Misunderstanding the Civil War.” A better title would be “150 Years of Changing Interpretations of the Civil War.” Historians, as Lord Acton observed, are merely politicians looking backwards, and they have their own prejudices and points of view. As he notes most […]

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Follow the link and you too can see what no living person has seen—the complete Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley, which has just been turned to an upright position. No way you’d get me on that thing, but I salute the brave men who went out on it. More here, with lots of photos.

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