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Divers work to learn story of sunken Civil War ships
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — During the Civil War, the Union Navy loaded aging whaleships with rocks and towed them south from New England to coastal Georgia and South Carolina. There the boats were sunk to block key waterways and frustrate blocka...