MORNING HEADLINES | Twenty-five years ago today, crews raised the history-making Civil War submarine H.L. Hunley from waters off the coast of Charleston.

During the Civil War, Confederates built the roughly 40-foot-long Hunley to help break the Union’s blockade of Southern ports. It sank twice before its first and only successful mission when it sank the U.S.S. Housatonic in February 1864, making it the first submarine to successfully sink an enemy ship in combat.

Moments after the successful attack, however, the Hunley and its eight-man crew vanished. It remained missing for more than 100 years.

But in 1995, the historic vessel was found during an expedition funded by New York Times best-selling author Clive Cussler. According to the Friends of the Hunley, a nonprofit organizat

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