{"product_id":"9781623492793","title":"Confederate Saboteurs: Building the Hunley and Other Secret Weapons of the Civil War","description":"Facing an insurmountable deficit in resources compared to the Union navy, the Confederacy resorted to unorthodox forms of warfare to combat enemy forces.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Perhaps the most energetic and effective torpedo corps and secret service company organized during the American Civil War, the Singer Secret Service Corps, led by Texan inventor and entrepreneur Edgar Collins Singer, developed and deployed submarines, underwater weaponry, and explosive devices.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The group’s main government-financed activity, which eventually led to other destructive inventions such as the \u003ci\u003eHunley\u003c\/i\u003e submarine and behind-enemy-line railroad sabotage, was the manufacture and deployment of an underwater contact mine. During the two years the Singer group operated, several Union gunboats, troop transports, supply trains, and even the famous ironclad monitor \u003ci\u003eTecumseh\u003c\/i\u003e fell prey to its inventions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eConfederate Saboteurs: Building the Hunley and Other Secret Weapons of the Civil War,\u003c\/i\u003e submarine expert and nautical historian  Mark K. Ragan presents the untold story of the Singer corps. Poring through previously unpublished archival documents, Ragan also examines the complex personalities and relationships behind the Confederacy’s use of torpedoes and submarines.","brand":"Texas A\u0026M University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47130821198064,"sku":"9781623492793","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781623492793_p0.jpg?v=1763859010","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781623492793","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}