[bmwcyle]

[rockrr]

that would be great if they can resurrect her.

[thackney]

In Vicksburg, there is a great display of the USS Cairo.

http://www.nps.gov/vick/u-s-s-cairo-gunboat.htm

[Flatus I. Maximus]

The Civil War ushered in the era of armored warships. In Savannah, a Ladies Gunboat Association raised $115,000 to build such a ship to protect the city. The 120-foot-long CSS Georgia had armor forged from railroad iron, but its engines proved too weak to propel the ship's 1,200-ton frame against river currents. The ship was anchored on the riverside at Fort Jackson as a floating gun battery.

Ultimately the Georgia was scuttled by its own crew without having ever fired a shot in combat.

So they want to spend $14 million of taxpayer money to raise the remaining pieces of a 150-year-old complete failure and boondoggle that was sunk by its own crew and has mostly rusted away.

Is it just me, or is this nuts?

[Mr Apple]

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-us-cs/csa-sh/csash-ag/georgia2.htm

[BenLurkin]

Oh, for crying out loud.

Send in a dredge and plow it out. Get on with things that need to be done.

[Daaave]

The Confederates and people here on this thread consider the CSS Georgia a failure. The Union thought differently. You can read what they thought in their own words. You can also learn why the Union took Savannah by land.

The Commander of the blockading fleet wrote in 1862: “…we have been disturbed by the repeated reports of there being an ironclad ship in the Savannah River, and for the first time since I took command of this squadron I have felt a sense of oppression…”

CSS Georgia