Subj : Marines
To   : GEORGE POPE
From : JOE MACKEY
Date : Mon Jun 06 2022 07:45:46

  CP wrote to Mike --

> Wow.  I think I've only heard of the Alligator, made by the Union

  The CSA had the Hundley that was later lost at sea but it was found a few
years ago off the coast of the Carollina's.

> -- why submarines, anyway, wasn't the Civil War pretty much all a land-based war?
  
   Pretty much, but the Union had a blockade for shipping since the South
had to import and export goods.
   Submarines where used mainly to ram and sink wooden ships.  It was for
offensive rather than defensive use.
   Joe
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