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| Hunley Crew Won't Lie in State |
| (Charleston-AP) -- The chairman of the
Hunley Commission says the eight crewmen of the Confederate
submarine H.L. Hunley will not lie in state at the
Statehouse. Senator Glenn McConnell says he would have liked to have had the crewmen lie in state in Columbia but it's not in the plans. The burial is to be held April 17th at Magnolia Cemetery in Charleston. A museum spokesman says the crew will lie in state for two days on board the USS Yorktown at the Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum in Mount Pleasant. Initial reports the crew would be brought to the Statehouse drew criticism from business and civil rights leaders. McConnell says a volunteer web site posted such information and when the commission discovered the posting, it asked that the information be removed. The Hunley became the first submarine in history to sink an enemy warship when it sank the Union blockade ship Housatonic off Charleston in 1864. The Hunley itself sank before returning to shore. |