Raising the CSS Georgia

Yesterday, we found it MUCH EASIER leaving Tybee Island.  Absolutely no traffic jams like what kept us there Sunday night.

Drove back to Savannah and then to Old Fort Jackson, which I toured.  This little-known fort actually has more cannons than Fort Fisher, which now has only two coast defense cannons, one that fires.

I saw a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers boat tied up by the buoy that  marks the wreck of the Confederate ironclad CSS Georgia which was scuttled when Sherman captured  Savannah.  It is about fifty yards off Old Fort Jackson.  This was where the Georgia spend most of her career after it was found that her engines ncould not propel it against the strong Savannah current.

I was told they are currently bringing up small poieces, but this summer they intend to bring up cannons and pieces of the casemate.

--Old B-Runner