By Ed Piper
One of the most fascinating tours we have taken is to the H.L. Hunley submarine, a Confederate submersible that sank to the bottom of the Charleston Harbor after torpedoing and sinking the U.S.S. Housatonic on February 17, 1864.
Interestingly, the sub--which was never commissioned by the Confederacy, thus sometimes incorrectly referred to as the C.S.S. H.L. Hunley--was found in 1995, then raised with great fanfare in a public ceremony in 2000.
In fact, something that really impacted me was Karen, a member of the French Huguenot Church we attended in the French Quarter in Charleston, telling us that she was in the harbor for the raising, and how much that event meant to her.
This brought home to me once again how important "being Southern" is to white Southerners, who relish their heritage, including the Confederate struggle in the Civil War over 150 years ago.
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