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After a season of independence, the federal government and folks of the Confederacy were starting to worry. During their first season after seceding from the United States, everything had opted well. In 1861 and early 1862 the rebel military liked success after success, and the initial optimism of those in the North who thought the rebels could be defeated in a few months had settled into the grim acknowledgement that the battle would take years and cost many thousands of lives. Now things were turning against the South. It had lost earth in the western world, and more critically its economy had been strangled by the Union naval blockade on its plug-ins. At the start of the battle, Union General Winfield Scott had rightly seen any particular one of the Union's biggest advantages was that it had a lot more warships. He introduced the Anaconda Plan, where the Navy encircled the Confederacy such as a vast snake, blocking every interface and major river and reducing it off from the exterior world. The Confederate Navy tried to deal with off the blockade but was critically outgunned. Confederate blockade runners, independent providers with fast boats, became countrywide heroes for their daring races across the ocean with Union warships hot on their heels. While their journeys made for good headlines, the products they slipped through the blockade weren't almost enough to resolve the persistent shortages. The South needed another type of solution. It needed some kind of vessel that could defeat the blockading boats yet be within the financial and technological means of the Confederate battle chest. It had been the suggested solution to the problem that resulted in one of the strangest and uplifting reviews of the Civil War-that of the CSS H. L. Hunley, the first submarine to efficiently sink an adversary vessel. It is the story of its obsessive inventor, Horace Lawson Hunley, and his daring and decided crewmembers. Additionally it is a story of technology well ahead of its time. However, as ancient and groundbreaking as the Hunley and its own mission was, all of that may be overshadowed by the lingering question over precisely what occurred to the submarine, which never managed to get back to interface after the episode. The submarine was eventually found, but historians still continue to check out all the data, including the positions of the team, in an effort to conclusively determine how the Hunley sank. The enduring enigma has helped keep involvement in the submarine alive as salvage efforts continue.
