One of the primary strengths of Chaffin’s book is its scope. A second, the American Diver, sank in Mobile Bay. The first boat the group developed, the Pioneer, was scuttled in New Orleans shortly before the city fell into Union hands. Following them from the New Orleans machine shop where their quest began, he chronicles a journey that eventually included numerous collaborators, several high-ranking military figures and three different submarines. Hunley, James McClintock and Baxter Watson. Chaffin, author of Sea of Gray: The Around-the-World Odyssey of the Confederate Raider Shenandoah,begins by providing perhaps the most-thoroughly researched biographies of the key individuals whose ambition launched the effort to create a functional submarine for the Confederacy: Horace L.
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