SAVANNAH, Ga. - Recovering the CSS Georgia ironclad scuttled on the Savannah River floor marks the beginning of the construction phase of the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project. Col. Thomas Tickner, ...

U.S. Navy divers and specially trained handlers removed the first cannon from the Savannah River during the current phase of the recovery of the CSS Georgia ironclad on July 15, according to ...

U.S. Navy divers successfully recovered a 64-square foot section of the Savannah-built Civil War ironclad warship CSS Georgia from the bottom of the Savannah River Tuesday evening. The removal and ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (Aug. 21, 2015) -- As cities along the East Coast scramble to bolster their infrastructure and employ massive dredges to deepen their harbors, Savannah began its harbor expansion with a ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. -- After 150 years at the bottom of the Savannah River, the armored skeleton of the Confederate warship CSS Georgia is being raised to the surface one 5-ton chunk at a time. Navy divers ...

The CSS Georgia continues to surprise archaeologists. Case in point, this 9,000-pound Dahlgren rifled cannon that archaeologists thought was a different type of cannon before raising it to the surface ...

NORFOLK, Va. – The Navy is preparing to send one if its premier diving teams to Georgia to help salvage a Confederate warship from the depths of the Savannah River. The 1,200 ton ironclad CSS Georgia ...

“I required but a moment to fathom the meaning of the deathlike silence, and then our skirmishers moved forward.” A Federal soldier described the eerie moment he and his Ohio regiment entered Savannah ...