North America, Southern United States (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peyton W Harrison.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Current Research at Texas A&M University's Conservation Research Laboratory" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The CSS Georgia was an ironclad steam battleship built for the Confederate navy in 1862. It acted as a floating battlement in the Savannah River and was scuttled in 1864 to prevent capture by the Union army when General Sherman advanced on Georgia. The remains of the vessel were recovered in 2015 and...