Personal Artifacts from the CSS Georgia

Summary

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 have been undergoing conservation treatment at Texas A&M’s Conservation Research Laboratory. This paper presents a detailed analysis of the personal artifacts found aboard the CSS Georgia, including a single wooden domino, a set of brass musical pipes, and a lead bullet that was heavily marked and was possibly a game piece. This analysis includes the provenance of the artifacts on the vessel, the composition, significance of the artifacts, and discussions of possible parallels found at other documented Confederate sites.

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• Current Research at Texas A&M University's Conservation Research Laboratory   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2022

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