The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-11-04
) The News and

of the career of the Confederate sub
marine Hundley and the various
crews who lost their lives on her.
This article was read by Col. w. b.
Fort, Of Pikeyille, and he said hat
1t was in the main correct, though in
correct In giving the names of the
crew which was aboard the submarine
at the time that she was instrumental
in sinking the Federal %gunboat,
Housatonic. A correct list of the crew
appears in an article which Colonel
Fort wrote several years ago. the ar
ticle containing in addition, much OF
great interest in connection with the
navy of the COnfederacy. This ar
ticle will he found below, and reads
a. follows:
While at Old Point during the
Worlds Fair at Chicago, making OBJ
servations with my powerful marine
glasses of the most formidable feet
Of wal vessels of the different nations
that ever anchored in Hampton
Roads, with all their modern improve
ments suggested n invented by the
Confederate war, signaling to each
other by night with their variegated
colored electric lights with their
steam and naptha launches shoot
ing over the roads like fire-fies, my
memory drifts back into the past,
when the Merrimac came steaming
slowly down the James into Hampton
YNOduS, SIllhiIS tIC L SNdtCO LIS
ates Congress and Constitution with
her powerful iron prov. while both
friSateS continued firing their broad
sid batteries until the water ran into
the muzzles Of the guns of the two
sinking ships. After this tight the
navies of the world remOdeled their
warships, building them Of iron and
steel instead of wood. The English
man-of-war Blake now anchored
lower down the bay was then con-
sidered the most powerful man-of-
war afioat. Far out at sea could be
seen the lights and smoke of a Span
ISL man-of-war towing into the Roads
the models OF Columbus two boats
The Marie and Pinta, upon whose
poop decks he first discovered Ameri-
ca.
James 4. Wicks.
on board of the Congress was James
4. WickS. a common sailor IN the
United States navy from North caro-
lima, who escaped from a watery
grave by swimming ashore near New
port News. James A.. Wicks, like
great many other Southerners. re
manned in the old navy when TIL
war began. From that fight, he in
formed me, his conscience smote hin
and on the first opportunity. he lef
the stars and Stripes and enlisted un
der the Stars and Bars Of his owl
sunny South. He was sent from tn
James river squadron at Rich
mond with a detachmen Of sail
ors and marines to Charleston
s. c.. to board and destroy tn
United States man o war IrOnside
then ~blcckading Charleston bar. h
boarding were cutlasses. pis
tolls. hand genadeS, also Belgian rifle:
Torpedoes were then in their frs
stage of development, though formid
able enough to send the whole feders
hlnnIDlipr fleet fn COO nv rOUlnp III
beore sunset a torpedo boat across tn
harbor when we wished to run out
blockade runner loaded with cotto
for Nassau. Abou this time this dt
tachment of sailors arrived at Charlie.
ton, and was quartered on board TT
Indian Chief cho about a mi
from shore on Cooper river opposi1
Charleston.
Dives Under indian Chief.
One calm fair day while all han
were at dinner, the watch upon dec
the Indian Chief announced that Il
submarine torpedo boat was about
dive under the Indian Chief as 81
had usually done While exercising h
crew for the awful mission which a
forwards occurred. All On board we
to the s~tarboard side of the ship
see her rise to the surface after divil
under US, but she did not come
the surface. hen all went to the 81
she went down and saw "a great qua
tity of small bubbles rising from {
bottom Of the river. About this tir
our attention was attracted ashore
some one waving a white handk
chief upon the wharf. a BOAT W
sent ashore and was informed by t
inventor Of the submarine BOAT tn
against his positive orders, the err
had zone out on the river practici
while he was up town getting a sha'
When informed Of the fate o his or,
and boat, he Immediately secured
river steamer with diving bell
board and came out and went down
the diving bell and made fast a laI
rope to the boat on the bottom of t
river about forty feet deep.
Race For Life.
Now came the race for life of
crew to get the boat on shore ms,
OF an hour, as the boat retains o.
air enough for the crew to live OF