Hl Hunley Crew Burial
On february 17th 1864 the h.
Hl hunley crew burial. Now at last they were at rest. A few weeks later a second crew including designer h l. The hunley submarine crew posthumous reunion a find a grave.
They were buried alongside the h. Hunley died during a test dive. The funeral procession in charleston sc 2004.
Spraguethe second crew was lost on october 15 1863 when the hunley failed to surface during a mock attack killing all 8 crewmen including her designer builder horace hunley. Pallbearers in confederate uniforms standing by caskets 2. Park charles mchugh henry beard john marshall charles l.
Hunley robert brockbank joseph patterson thomas w. Contribute create and discover gravesites from all over the world. Hunley s second crew in magnolia cemetery second crew.
The world s largest gravesite collection. Hunley demonstrated the advantages and the dangers of undersea warfare. Pallbearers loading casket coffin onto caisson horse drawn gu.
Men singing amazing grace 3. The attendance of crewmember descendants and the overwhelming amount of visitors made the burial not just a solemn and inspirational event but a celebration of our nation s history. The hunley crew s 140 year journey of maritime achievement technology and intrigue finally ended with the burial fate had for so long made impossible.
Hunley often referred to as hunley or erroneously as css hunley was a submarine of the confederate states of america that played a small part in the american civil war. N on 17 february 1864 the confederate submarine made a late night attack on uss housatonic a 1 240 ton b sloop of war with 16 guns in charleston harbor off the coast of south carolina. Hunley became the first successful combat submarine in world history with the sinking of the uss housatonic after completing her mission she mysteriously vanished and remained lost at sea for over a century.
The members of the third crew were being buried next to the other crews in a plot shaded by oaks and. She was the first combat submarine to sink a warship uss housatonic although hunley was not completely submerged and following her successful. Thousands of men in confederate gray and union blue and women in black hoop skirts and veils escorted the crew of the confederate submarine h l.
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