Before government engineers can deepen one of the nation's busiest
seaports to accommodate future trade, they first need to remove a $14
million obstacle from the past -- a Confederate warship rotting on the
Savannah River bottom for nearly 150 years.
Confederate troops scuttled the ironclad CSS Georgia to prevent its
capture by Gen. William T. Sherman when his Union troops took Savannah
in December 1864. It's been on the river bottom ever since.
Now, the Civil War shipwreck sits in the way of a government agency's
$653 million plan to deepen the waterway that links the nation's
fourth-busiest container port to the Atlantic Ocean. The ship's remains
are considered so historically significant that dredging the river is
prohibited within 50 feet of the wreckage.
2 comments:
This is a very important piece of American and Southern history. God Bless the South!
I agree with 2:13 leave it alone
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