 (Charleston-AP) -- Experts are putting faces
with names of the H.L. Hunley crew.
Biographies and
facial reconstructions of two crewmen, George Dixon and Arnold
Becker, were released on Monday.
The Hunley crew
funeral will be Saturday. Lectures, ceremonies and a series of
vigils are planned.
A forensic expert from the
Smithsonian Institution and a forensic genealogist helped
estimate the identities based on military records and skeletal
remains.
Dixon was the commander and an athletic man in
his mid-20s with blond hair. Becker likely was the smallest
and youngest crew member of the Confederate
submarine.
Both men were aboard the Hunley on February
17th, 1864, when it sank the Union blockade ship Housatonic
and became the first sub in history to sink an enemy
warship.
The submarine sank soon after and was lost for
more than a century until it was raised in
2000. |
