SAVANNAH, Ga. — Divers and military salvage crews will spend the next nine months raising what’s left of an armored Confederate warship that’s been rotting at the bottom of the Savannah River for 150 years.
After years of planning, the Army Corps of Engineers announced Thursday that work has begun to recover the remains of the ironclad CSS Georgia. The ship was scuttled by its own Confederate crew to prevent its capture by Gen. William T. Sherman when his Union army took Savannah in December 1864.
