The CSS Pee Dee, Confederate Gunboat-- Part 1

From the February 1, 2013, WMBF News "Civil War discoveries tell our history."

Horry County.  The CSS Pee Dee was built on the Pee Dee River, hence its name.

Conway native Ted Gragg, grew up hearing stories about this Confederate ship whose propellers were found in 1925 and placed in thne Horry County Museum.  In the 1950s, there was a failed attempt to raise the wreck of it, but the location of the cannons remained a mystery.

Gragg and his friends continued to look for them and then, one day in the 1990s, while sitting on what he thought was a large piece of driftwood, he suddenly discovered it was actually a lifeboat.

"I said 'That's it, we're not going to search anymore.'  This boy that was with us went over to the water and washed his hands and he screamed.  We ran over to him and he had a 7 inch Confederate cannon ball in his hands."

More to Come.  --Old B-Runner