Real funny

Jokes on them, the true story is the blast killed the entire crew instantly.

H. L. Hunley. It was never a Confederate States Ship.

And yet, the Dixiemobile sank not once, not twice, but three times....and even then, the Confederates still lost.

Besides, _Hunley_ was the first of her kind; no sailor - Union or otherwise - had been trained to fight attack submarines at the time, because they weren't a thing. Frankly, the most impressive thing is the engineering feat. To design, build, and put into action an operational submarine with mid-19th tech is astonishing. She had no electrical power, and all system were manually operated by the central hand-crank - the prop, ballast pumps, etc.

@@sixstanger00and? They made subs before Germans and carpet baggers

Yeah god bless traitors! Long live slavery! Death to America!

The H. L. Hunley was not CSS it was a privateer the crew was to be paid in gold for sinking the ship

It was the mid 1800s. What should he have used? A modern electric megaphone?

@@sixstanger00 I didn't say he shoud hsve used anything ese. It just struck ne as funny.

@@sixstanger00 Pretty sure they would have used a whistle.

Bryan Norris Yes that’s true! Well done.

CSS as an honorary title.

I believe the Confederate Govt claimed the vessel after Hunley died during a test run.

How were you there for a funeral in the 1800s? ☠️

No, they supported slavery.

Dixie ruled at losing a war

@@thomasmead4642 so did the Union lol

😂

Thank you

Their cause was to defend their native state like 70% of the south. War is hell. And their remains help us solve the mystery

Brave men, noble cause. And I have a feeling that if the federals could somehow see what the U.S. would become a few generations later, they would have switched sides.

@@MrEpeeFencer since when is keeping slaves noble?

@@trevdestroyer8209 Most didn't even have slaves so nobody even said it was noble. But at a time Union armies ran rampant burning down all about half the South, one guy saw his sons killed in the most grotesque ways by Union sympathizers and as a result spent the rest of the war sniping Union soldiers. So, noble or not, indeed, anyone would arm themselves and even get in that submarine.

@@ToreDL87 he said noble cause so is the right to keep slaves consider noble?

Someone asked him why nobody heard of him for around a year and he was like "i..changed" wtf is that a reason to just jerk all your videos away? It felt like a middle finger to us internet Confeds...

No idea. Shouldn’t have changed it

No in the movie it sank from the shockwaves and its highly believed to be the case in real life as well. After soldiers on the shore saw the explosion, they saw a signal from the Hunley and waited for their return. The Hunley never returned.

It also may have been hit by the Merrymac (sp) as it came to help

Did you know that 7 confederate states didn’t mention slavery in their articles of secession? That South Carolina left after the raid on Harpers Ferry? That South Carolina said they left just like the U.S did in 1776? That 70% of the south didn’t have slavery? Southern History #1 “We Are Fighting for Independence, Not Slavery”. - Jefferson Davis President of the Confederacy to Edward Kirk “I worked night and day for 12 years to prevent the war, but I could not. The north was mad, blind,would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.” - Confederate President Jefferson Davis “In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution, is a moral & political evil in any Country.” - Robert E Lee “While we see the Course of the final abolition of human slavery is onward, & we give it the aid of our prayers & all justifiable means in our power we must leave the progress as well as the result in his hands who Sees the end” - Robert E Lee 1856 “I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished. I believe it will be greatly for the interests of the South. So fully am I satisfied of this, as regards Virginia especially, that I would cheerfully have lost all I have lost by the war, and have suffered all I have suffered, to have this object attained.” - Robert E Lee “I have always been in favor of Emancipation.” - Robert E Lee In an 1863 letter to his home state congressman, Elihu Washburne, Grant summed up his pre-war attitude: “I never was an Abolitionist,” he said, “not even what could be called anti-slavery.” “We're were not fighting for the perpetuation of slavery, but for the principles of states rights and free trade, and in defense of our homes which we were ruthlessly invaded.” -VMI Jewish Cadet Moses Jacob Ezekiel “Let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment. Many things have been said about me which are wrong, and which white and black persons here, who stood by me through the war, can contradict.” - Nathan Bedford Forrest “African Americans should have the right to vote.” - Confederate Colonel John Salmon Ford The confederate soldier “Fought because he was provoked, intimidated, and ultimately invaded” -James Webb Born Fighting a History of the Scoth-Irish in America “I was fighting for my home, and he had no business being there” -Virginia confederate Soldier Frank Potts List of causes of the Civil War- Harpers Ferry On the night of October 16, 1859, Brown and a band of followers seized the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia), in what is believed to have been an attempt to arm a slave insurrection. (Brown denied this at his trial, but evidence indicated otherwise.) They were dislodged by a force of U.S. Marines led by Army lieutenant colonel Robert E. Lee. Brown was swiftly tried for treason against Virginia and hanged. Southern reaction initially was that his acts were those of a mad fanatic, of little consequence. But when Northern abolitionists made a martyr of him, Southerners came to believe this was proof the North intended to wage a war of extermination against white Southerners. Brown’s raid thus became a step on the road to war between the sections. States' Rights The idea of states' rights was not new to the Civil War. Since the Constitution was first written there had been arguments about how much power the states should have versus how much power the federal government should have. The southern states felt that the federal government was taking away their rights and powers. Political power That was not enough to calm the fears of delegates to an 1860 secession convention in South Carolina. To the surprise of other Southern states-and even to many South Carolinians-the convention voted to dissolve the state’s contract with the United States and strike off on its own. South Carolina had threatened this before in the 1830s during the presidency of Andrew Jackson, over a tariff that benefited Northern manufacturers but increased the cost of goods in the South. Jackson had vowed to send an army to force the state to stay in the Union, and Congress authorized him to raise such an army (all Southern senators walked out in protest before the vote was taken), but a compromise prevented the confrontation from occurring. Perhaps learning from that experience the danger of going it alone, in 1860 and early 1861 South Carolina sent emissaries to other slave holding states urging their legislatures to follow its lead, nullify their contract with the United States and form a new Southern Confederacy. Six more states heeded the siren call: Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. Others voted down secession-temporarily. When President Lincoln called for Volunteers to invade the south, six southern states voted to join the Confederacy. The issue of slavery The burning issue that led to the disruption of the union was the debate over the future of slavery. Secession brought about a war in which the Northern and Western states and territories fought to preserve the Union, and the South fought to establish Southern independence as a new confederation of states under its own constitution. Most of the states of the North, meanwhile, one by one had gradually abolished slavery. A steady flow of immigrants, especially from Ireland and Germany during the potato famine of the 1840s and 1850s, insured the North a ready pool of laborers, many of whom could be hired at low wages, diminishing the need to cling to the institution of slavery. Child labor was also a growing trend in the North. The agrarian South utilized slaves to tend its large plantations and perform other duties. On the eve of the Civil War, some 4 million Africans and their descendants toiled as slave laborers in the South. Slavery was part of the Southern economy although only a relatively small portion of the population actually owned slaves. - History . net

Bryan Norris The North Carolina secession ordinance by John W. Ellis did not mention slavery as a cause to leave the Union. "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that." -Lincon in a letter to Horace Greeley 1862 "I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of brining about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races, that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race."- Lincoln/Douglas forth debate in Charleston, Illinois September 18, 1858

The Hunley may have had no impact on the outcome of the war, but its legacy lives on in every combat submarine prowling the sea today.