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Howell named chairman of Friends of Hunley
Associated Press - August 28, 2008 4:05 PM ET
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - The Friends of the Hunley, the nonprofit group which raises money to preserve the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley, has a new chairman.
Sam Howell, a Charleston lawyer and history buff, succeeds Warren Lasch, who resigned in 2005 to focus on his businesses. Dr. Charles Peery had served as interim chairman.
State Sen. Glenn McConnell, chairman of the South Carolina Hunley Commission, says Howell's leadership will be important in raising money to build a museum to display the sub.
The hand-cranked Hunley sank in February 1864 after ramming a black powder charge into the Union blockade ship Housatonic off Charleston.