The search engine Excite had a whole news page on the Hunley with photos, stories, etc.

As for them all being 5'2", I imagine that shorter men were chosen to go aboard submarines because the quarters were very small. But the old thing about "people were so much shorter then" is not entirely true..... the documented average height of soldiers in the Union army was 5'8" and some change. (I don't suspect Confederate army records are any different.) Maybe we're up to an average of 5'10" now, or something like that.

I wish I could have been there when they brought it up.