NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - Visitors to the South Carolina lab where conservation work is under way on the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley can see a new exhibit.
A cannon from the Confederate raider CSS Alabama goes on display Saturday at the North Charleston lab. Two cannon from the Alabama were conserved at the lab and one was returned to Mobile last year.
The Alabama sailed for 22 months during the Civil War and her crew boarded 447 ships and took 2,000 prisoners. It sank off Cherbourg, France after an engagement with the USS Kearsarge in June 1864, just a few months after the Hunley sank off Sullivans Island.
The wreck of the Alabama was discovered in 1984 and the cannon were raised in 2000, a few months before the Hunley was raised.
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