The 25-foot submarine sank off Charleston along with her first and only victim, the U.S.S. housatonic.
"The Civil War Centennial Handbook"
William H. Price
When they crossed the housatonic river in their flight they were so closely pursued by the Indians that Providence was severely wounded in the neck by a ball from one of their guns.
"Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution"
L. Carroll Judson
We were always on the alert, and doubly so at that time, for only a short while previously, the Confederates had sunk another of our ironclads, the housatonic, with one of their torpedo-Davids,-little boats that were so called because, compared with the great ironclads they were meant to attack, they somewhat resembled David when he went out against Goliath.
"In the Track of the Troops"
R.M. Ballantyne