Lieutenant Commander Edwin T. Brower of the U.S. Navy served aboard the U.S.S. South Carolina, U.S.S. Housatonic, U.S.S. Hartford, and U.S.S. Montauk. It was while serving on the U.S.S. Housatonic that he was captured at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, and imprisoned at Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia.
An important turning point in naval warfare was on 17 February 1864 when the Confederate States Navy submarine, H.L. Hunley made her first and only attack on a Union Navy warship when she staged a clandestine night attack on U.S.S. Housatonic in Charleston harbor. H.L. Hunley approached just under the surface, avoiding detection until the last moments, then embedded and remotely detonated a spar torpedo that rapidly sank the Housatonic sloop-of-war with the loss of five Union sailors. H.L. Hunley became renowned as the first submarine to successfully sink an enemy vessel in combat.
An important turning point in naval warfare was on 17 February 1864 when the Confederate States Navy submarine, H.L. Hunley made her first and only attack on a Union Navy warship when she staged a clandestine night attack on U.S.S. Housatonic in Charleston harbor. H.L. Hunley approached just under the surface, avoiding detection until the last moments, then embedded and remotely detonated a spar torpedo that rapidly sank the Housatonic sloop-of-war with the loss of five Union sailors. H.L. Hunley became renowned as the first submarine to successfully sink an enemy vessel in combat.
Lieutenant Commander Edwin T. Brower of the U.S. Navy served aboard the U.S.S. South Carolina, U.S.S. Housatonic, U.S.S. Hartford, and U.S.S. Montauk. It was while serving on the U.S.S. Housatonic that he was captured at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, and imprisoned at Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia.
An important turning point in naval warfare was on 17 February 1864 when the Confederate States Navy submarine, H.L. Hunley made her first and only attack on a Union Navy warship when she staged a clandestine night attack on U.S.S. Housatonic in Charleston harbor. H.L. Hunley approached just under the surface, avoiding detection until the last moments, then embedded and remotely detonated a spar torpedo that rapidly sank the Housatonic sloop-of-war with the loss of five Union sailors. H.L. Hunley became renowned as the first submarine to successfully sink an enemy vessel in combat.
An important turning point in naval warfare was on 17 February 1864 when the Confederate States Navy submarine, H.L. Hunley made her first and only attack on a Union Navy warship when she staged a clandestine night attack on U.S.S. Housatonic in Charleston harbor. H.L. Hunley approached just under the surface, avoiding detection until the last moments, then embedded and remotely detonated a spar torpedo that rapidly sank the Housatonic sloop-of-war with the loss of five Union sailors. H.L. Hunley became renowned as the first submarine to successfully sink an enemy vessel in combat.
Gravesite Details
Buried in the woods on the Broyles farm, two miles from the Red Sulphur Springs Hotel in Red Sulphur Springs, Monroe County, West Virginia
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