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Photo #: NH 55226

CSS Chattahoochee (1863-1864)


Ship's engines and lower portion of the after hull, photographed following recovery in the vicinity of Columbus, Georgia, circa the early or middle 1960s.
Note the engines' horizontal cylinders, with the shafts of her twin screws beyond them. This machinery had been wrecked with sledge hammers when the ship was scuttled in December 1864.

Courtesy of the Confederate Salvage Association, Inc., Columbus, Georgia.

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22 October 2001