Confederate Efforts to Build an Effective Civil War Submarine Drawing designs and constructing prototypes of 1860’s submarines was one thing, but keeping the crew alive was something quite different. The latter was more difficult. The impetus for the Confederate Navy to build an effective Civil War submarine was to aid in Union blockade running. Part …
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Confederate Navy
The American Civil War battles were waged all over the south, in the far west in the present state of Arizona and in the north at Gettysburg. One of the somewhat under publicized actions undertaken by the Confederate Navy were hostile events in the Atlantic as far north as Nova Scotia. Not only did …