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Author Ragan, Mark K., author.

Title Confederate saboteurs : building the Hunley and other secret weapons of the Civil War / Mark K. Ragan
Edition First edition
Published College Station : Texas A & M University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource
Series Ed Rachal Foundation nautical archaeology series
Ed Rachal Foundation nautical archaeology series.
Contents Formation and deployment -- First torpedo strike and launching the Hunley -- Richmond invests in the Corps -- Losing the Hunley -- Operations throughout the Confederacy -- Taking the fight to the enemy
Summary Facing an insurmountable deficit in resources compared to the Union navy, the Confederacy resorted to unorthodox forms of warfare to combat enemy forces. Perhaps the most energetic and effective torpedo corps and secret service company organized during the American Civil War, the Singer Secret Service Corps, led by Texan inventor and entrepreneur Edgar Collins Singer, developed and deployed submarines, underwater weaponry, and explosive devices. The group's main government-financed activity, which eventually led to other destructive inventions such as the Hunley submarine and behind-enemy-line
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Singer, Edgar Collins, 1825-1919.
Singer, Edgar Collins, 1825-1919
H.L. Hunley (Submarine)
Confederate States of America. Army -- Officers -- Biography
Confederate States of America. Singer Secret Service Corps -- History
Confederate States of America. Singer Secret Service Corps -- Biography
Confederate States of America. Singer Secret Service Corps
Confederate States of America. Army
H.L. Hunley (Submarine)
Secret service -- Confederate States of America -- History
Mechanical engineers -- Biography
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
Armed Forces -- Officers
Mechanical engineers
Military operations, Naval -- Submarine
Secret service
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Naval operations -- Submarine.
United States
United States -- Confederate States of America
Genre/Form Electronic books
Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2014046006
ISBN 9781623492793
1623492793
1623492785
9781623492786