The H.L. Hunley: South Carolina's Lost Submarine Mystery
Eight men, a hand crank and a bomb on a pole sank a warship in 1864, then vanished. The wreck was found and raised, yet how the crew died is still argued over.
1861 to 1865: lost treasuries, burned depots and the gold stories that came out of the war.
Eight men, a hand crank and a bomb on a pole sank a warship in 1864, then vanished. The wreck was found and raised, yet how the crew died is still argued over.
Three days in July 1863, thousands of casualties and a reputation as America's most haunted town. Here's what Gettysburg's ghost lore rests on, and what it doesn't.
A wagon of Confederate gold, a cavalry corps laying down its arms and a cotton town on the Tombigbee. The Gainesville legend, and the real last days of the war around it.
Local lore swears Confederate gold went under with the valleys that became Georgia's Lake Lanier. Here's what really sank in 1956, where the real rebel gold went, and why the lake keeps its secrets.
A wagon of Confederate gold, the legend says, vanished into the hills around Blue Mountain, Alabama, in 1865. The depot, the camp and the raid were real. The gold? Not one record.