USS Weehawken's "Devil"-- Part 5: It's Still There By Morris Island

After Rodgers cut the "Devil" loose on April 7, it drifted behind Morris Island where the Confederates found it.  Engineers inspected the strange contraption and made a detailed sketch of it.  They later returned to procure any usable parts from the raft.  Captain Francis Lee requisitioned some ten tons of iron fittings from "the Yankee devil," intending to use it for his torpedo rams.

There is a copy of his requisition in the article along with the Confederate sketch.

Craig Swain, the blog writer of To the Sound of Guns, finds it amazing that the "Devil" still exists.  Several years ago he was on an excursion into the waters behind Morris Island in search of the Swamp Angel battery when it was mentioned that the remains of it were there.  He stomped over to it, saw it, but alas, had no camera.

But, a recent survey  of Civil War-related sites  around Charleston, conducted by the South Carolina Institute of  Archaeology and Anthropology for the American Battlefield Protection Program included the "Devil."

The survey team  visited the raft remains and took wood samples for analysis.

And, I'd Never Heard of It Before.  --Old B-Runner