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Steel truss surrounding Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley will be removed

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — The Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley will be in clear view for the first time in nearly 150 years once a truss weighing more than eight tons surrounding it is removed in South Carolina.

The work is scheduled for Thursday at a conservation lab in North Charleston....

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