Historical Marker
Hands Brigade
Historical marker location:
Harding, New Jersey
( Marker can be reached from Jockey Hollow Road, on the left when traveling south.)
Morristown National Historical Park.
The first recorded instance of a submarine attack on a ship occurred off the coast of New Jersey during the American Civil War. On February 17, 1864, the Confederate submarine CSS Hunley attacked and sank the Union ship USS Housatonic near Charleston, South Carolina, while on its way from New Jersey.