SAVANNAH, Ga. (Aug. 21, 2015) -- As cities along the East Coast scramble to bolster their infrastructure and employ massive dredges to deepen their harbors, Savannah began its harbor expansion with a ...

Archaeologists with the Army Corps of Engineers are searching for what may be the sole photograph of Civil War-era ironclad CSS Georgia as they salvage its remains from the Savannah River. So far, the ...

On October 12, 1861, CSS Manassas became the first ironclad to see combat at the Battle of the Head of Passes on the Mississippi River. Protected by iron or steel armor plates, ironclads held a ...

The deepening of the shipping channel in Savannah, Georgia, won’t be dredging up just mud and sand. It will be raising up a link to the past: an ironclad that protected the city during the Civil War ...

The CSS Georgia continues to surprise archaeologists. Case in point, this 9,000-pound Dahlgren rifled cannon that archaeologists thought was a different type of cannon before raising it to the surface ...

SAVANNAH | Since the beginning of June, one of the U.S. Navy's premier diving teams has been working with the Corps of Engineers and archaeologists to help salvage Confederate warship CSS Georgia from ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. -- After 150 years at the bottom of the Savannah River, the armored skeleton of the Confederate warship CSS Georgia is being raised to the surface one 5-ton chunk at a time. Navy divers ...

She didn’t have enough power to maneuver and effectively trade artillery rounds with enemy vessels in the swift Savannah River. Instead, the locally produced CSS Georgia, a one-of-a-kind ironclad ...

DINWIDDIE — While many Americans remember the famous land battles of the Civil War such as Gettysburg, Manassas or our own Petersburg Campaign, a large and equally important war was waged at sea.

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On March 9, 1862, Confederate Navy ship CSS Virginia and Union navy ship USS Monitor met in battle off the coast of Virginia. Their clash was inconclusive, but the battle was the first time metal ...