"I have written you on this subject in order to obtain an opportunity to draft out my invention, with which the means to command in Richmond can be done in a week...."
Although Levitt's scheme was not adopted, it was an interesting indication of early thinking about submarines in the South.
Ultimately the Confederacy built the H.L. Hunley, the first submarine to be used successfully in combat.
--Old B-Runner
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