The following headlines are from a fascinating AP article posted at dailymail.co.uk about the raising of the CSS Georgia.
- Divers raise wreckage of Confederate warship CSS Georgia in 5-ton chunks after vessel was sunk by its own crew 150 years ago
- Navy divers began working in late June to recover cannons, unexploded shells and other artifacts
- They finally started midweek on their last major task — retrieving an estimated 250,000 pounds of the Civil War ironclad’s armored siding
- The CSS Georgia was scuttled by its own crew to prevent Gen. William T. Sherman from capturing the massive gunship
