Man says photo at center of Civil War mystery is a 30-year-old hoax he did as a teen

Fox News ^ | 04.13.2015 | Fox News

[dware]

A photograph that has posed a Civil War mystery, puzzling historians for three decades, appears to be a long-surviving hoax.

The mysterious photograph of what appeared to be a far older photo — showing a figure in a coat and hat and the blurred image of a warship — surfaced in 1986. Some historians believed it might be a photo of the CSS Georgia, a Confederate ironclad that sank 150 years ago in Georgia as Union troops captured Savannah.

[mass55th]

Isn’t that Dan Rather in the chopper?

[BenLurkin]

CSS Georgia: Funding in the amount of $115,000 for her construction was provided by the Ladies' Gunboat Association.[2]

[Rodamala]

If you zoom way in you will see the Blackhawk is piloted by Brian Williams.

[Bigg Red]

I can picture that.

[Mathews]

Read it twice...

[NorthMountain]

Great book ... the teaser on the cover barely begins to cover it. The South wins pretty quickly ... then the REAL fun begins.

[4yearlurker]

Where's the pic of the Civil War soldiers standing around a dead pterodactyl they shot down.

[NorthMountain]

[a fool in paradise]

Which one's Pink?

[MeshugeMikey]

was this form the Dark Side Of the Spoon Era??

[a fool in paradise]

Time (from Dark Side of the Moonshine)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-HAnpglqkk

[4yearlurker]

Thank you NM!

[GeronL]

Yes, it is!

[windcliff]

ping

[Forward the Light Brigade]

good fake Job. Now we need a picture of the Confederate Sub CSS St. Patrick .

[GeronL]

\_______/

There.

[infowarrior]

Isn’t that Dan Rather in the chopper?

Probably Brian Williams...

the infowarrior

[BlueLancer]

No, that was the CSS Texas.

[onedoug]

I wish I still had the trash-can lid “UFO” Poloroids I took when I was a kid. They were pretty convincing too.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

“That there is one big chicken, bwas! Lot of meat on it. Ah hope cook can make heads or tails from it, a stew if naught else. Prolly tougher than shoe leather.”