Article: Confederate sub's crew laid to rest.

Byline: Michael Kilian

CHARLESTON, S.C. _ The Confederacy buried the last of its Civil War dead here Saturday, laying to rest in Southern soil the long-lost crew of the legendary submarine Hunley in a glittering pageant of rebel remembrance.

Called "the South's secret weapon," the 25-foot hand-powered forerunner of American submarines was considered one of the South's last hopes of breaking the Union blockade of Charleston and scraping out a Confederate victory.

It did manage to sink a federal warship, but disappeared immediately afterward. Discovered four miles off Charleston under 3 feet of silt and 28 feet of water nine years ago, it was ...

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