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Drowning to death in a metal tube was a fitting end for Confederate soldiers.
This finding indicated the torpedo had been attached directly to the spar, meaning the submarine may have been less than 16 feet (5 m) from Housatonic when the torpedo exploded
Possibly the most fascist way to die imaginable, inside a giant metal penis, unable to breath and about to deliver a warhead on your nose that will kill everyone including yourself.
I'm all for that.
When I post in the Wikipedia community though I do so because I find an article interesting, not because I agree with its contents or someone's objectives.
I have never seen the original, I did see the reconstruction as a static display though. My friend said "wait, those inbreds were at the forefront of submarine tech?"
Yeah I understand but given post civil war reconstruction clearly failed I consider myself still at war with these people, I suspect the feeling is mutual... so I have no problem laughing at the legacy and sacrifices of Confederate soldiers.
They fought to preserve slavery, the brutalizing of Black Lives, and immense inequality and in those respects they won the US Civil War, I will not pretend these fools deserve honor especially not after growing up in the all to recent wake of that war against freedom racist conservatives never stopped fighting.
There’s a museum near Charleston SC where they have the Hunley in a big water tank that I went to. What’s gross about the museum is that it celebrates the people who piloted it as “pioneers of submarine warfare” instead of gross traitors who sought to preserve the barbarism of slavery.