It’s planned that salvage crews will work through next September in the process of raising what remains of armored Confederate ironclad CSS Georgia. The ironclad has been deteriorating 30 feet below the surface of the Savannah River for over 150 years.
The Army Corps of Engineers has begun recovery efforts to bring up the remains of the vessel. It was scuttled by its crew to prevent its capture by Gen. William T. Sherman’s Union army in December 1864. The shipwreck lies in the area where the river winds east of downtown Savannah, Georgia.
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