From the April 16, 2015, Chicago Tribune "Civil War photo said to be a fake" by Mitch Weiss and Russ Bynum, AP.
I have been covering this story about the fake photograph of the CSS Georgia ironclad sunk in the Savannah River by Old Fort Jackson. This ship is now in the process of being raised and is getting a lot of publicity in the process.
Then, there was a story about a supposed photograph of the ship, the only one known to exist. But that photo, reported by one John Potter turned out to be a hoax he had made as a teenager.
Since I was going to be in Savannah for my niece's wedding on April 25th, I decided to go looking for this Huc-A-Poos on Tybee Island to find John Potter's lair when he used to live there. The article made him sound much like one of those "local characters" sometimes known to hang out at bars.
Well, on April 26th, after battling huge traffic jams and touring Fort Pulaski and a lot of driving around Tybee Island. lost for some of the time, and then an incorrect GPS location, we finally found this bar.
If you want to follow the many posts on this man and the fake photo, look up Potter John on the labels/index to the right.
Hey, Maybe Mr. Potter Might Even Be There. Who Knows? --Old B-Runner
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