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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.52 (search)
f your Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, you say: This led to an order placing General G. P. Rains in charge of the submarine defences. * * * The secret of all his future success. * * * Thays when you and I have passed away, and when it will be too late to correct errors, is that General Rains commanded the submarine defences of the South. To him is due the success of this means ofnd of the war under the orders of the Secretary of the Navy only, and never heard of any of General Rains' work, but in two instances. Once, when told that he had placed a self-acting torpedo in second instance was toward the close of the war, when some of these self-acting torpedoes of General Rains were again placed in the James river, and the Confederate steamer Shultz went down the riverat I had to experiment and bring the system to perfection. I never met or communicated with General Rains or any one attached to his submarine defences during the war or since. If your memory sti