Author: Fred Ray
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H. L. Hunley Righted
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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Steamboats on the Tombigbee
While visiting relatives in LA (Lower Alabama) I came across a copy of Rufus Ward’s book The Tombigbee River Steamboats: Rollodores, Dead Heads, and Side-Wheelers. Ward takes a look at Alabama’s almost forgotten steamboat era from the 1840s to the 1880s, in which the steamboats plying the Mobile, Alabama, Warrior and Tombigbee rivers dominated the […]