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From: "Sally Rolls Pavia" <>
Subject: Funeral For A Civil War Sub Crew
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 18:25:08 -0700

Rifles crackled and cannons rumbled across the marsh as the crew of the
Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley was laid to rest, 140 years after the
vessel became the first sub in history to sink an enemy warship.

Thousands of re-enactors in Confederate gray and Union blue marched in a
funeral cortege a mile-and-a-half long as the crewmen, in coffins draped
with Confederate flags and pulled on horse-drawn caissons, were taken to
their resting place.

Read the rest of the story at:

www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/04/17/national/main612416.shtml?cmp=EM8707
or
http://tinyurl.com/2v4e6

This is interesting for the history and Genealogy.

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