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13 Year Old Boy In 1st Hunley Remains?

How prevalent was it for Confederate Navy to have young boys in the ranks? I saw while doing a Google search a newspaper story on the burial of the first sailors that drowned when water went into the hatch from a ship! What ship caused this tragedy?

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