{"id":29692,"date":"2013-11-14T20:02:34","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T02:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=29692"},"modified":"2013-11-14T20:02:37","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T02:02:37","slug":"portion-of-ironclad-css-georgia-raised-from-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=29692","title":{"rendered":"Portion of Ironclad CSS Georgia Raised From River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following teaser is from the November 14, 2013 edition of cnn.com:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CSS_Georgia_(battery)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/300px-CSS_Georgia_ironclad.jpg\" alt=\"CSS_Georgia_ironclad\" width=\"300\" height=\"112\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-29693\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>(CNN) &#8212; She didn&#8217;t have enough power to maneuver and effectively trade artillery rounds with enemy vessels in the swift Savannah River. Instead, the locally produced <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CSS_Georgia_(battery)\">CSS Georgia<\/a>, a one-of-a-kind ironclad produced for the Confederacy during the Civil War, became a stationary floating battery, bristling with artillery pieces.<\/p>\n<p>She did her job.<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees, intent on taking Savannah, Georgia, refused to take on the CSS Georgia or other nearby defense obstructions.<br \/>\nThe CSS Georgia won the battle, but lost the war: The vessel was scuttled in December 1864 shortly before Union forces took Savannah and presented the city to President Abraham Lincoln as a Christmas present. The shipwreck has rested in the murky river since, rarely disturbed and having weathered the indignity of being hit during dredging a couple of times over the years.<\/p>\n<p>This week, U.S. Navy divers, working with archaeologists for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, retrieved a 64-square-foot section of the ironclad, a precursor to the long-anticipated removal and preservation of the shipwreck so the city&#8217;s vital shipping channel can be deepened.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/11\/13\/us\/georgia-civil-war-ironclad-ship\/index.html?sr=sharebar_facebook\">Read the full article and view video<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following teaser is from the November 14, 2013 edition of cnn.com: (CNN) &#8212; She didn&#8217;t have enough power to maneuver and effectively trade artillery rounds with enemy vessels in the swift Savannah River. Instead, the locally produced CSS Georgia, <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=29692\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Portion of Ironclad CSS Georgia Raised From River<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-civil-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29694,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29692\/revisions\/29694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}