Clive Cussler’s Hunley  Clive Eric Cussler  Clive Eric Cussler
(Photo credit: /Stef_)  Clive Cussler has found over 60
shipwrecks; more than half are Civil War wrecks. So, it was
inevitable that Clive Cussler would eventually search for the
Hunley. Since the late 1800s many people have claimed to have
found the Hunley; and many more have searched for the Hunley.
P.T. Barnum offered $100,000 reward for the first person to
prove they had found the Hunley. However, no one ever proved
they found the Hunley with photographs or artifacts from the
wrecked submarine. No one even knew positively what happened to
the Hunley.  As always, when the topic is the United States
Civil War, there were the two time-honored antagonists. Union
apologists claimed the Confederate submarine’s historic first
sinking of a ship was an unqualified success, as the Hunley sank
itself with the Housatonic. The Union apologists claimed the
blue light signal was a fabrication created by a sentry to
explain why he did not report the Hunley as