For more than a century, the CSS Hunley rested at the bottom of the ocean just outside Charleston harbor, its crew entombed, its hull gradually encased in hardening encrustations. When it was raised ...

NORTH CHARLESTON — Capt. George E. Dixon was determined to sink the USS Housatonic, located at the entrance to Charleston Harbor, and help break the Union blockade. On the night of Feb 17, 1864, he ...