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Divers raise CSS Georgia wreck in 5-ton armor chunks
Navy divers work from Savannah River to recover 250000 pounds of Confederate ironclad armor and artifacts from the CSS Georgia. Separated into about twenty five ton chunks, the slabs will be raised over a month and sent to Texas A&M for study and preservation.
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Savannah
Georgia
William T. Sherman
Jason Potts
Navy
Onscene
Confederacy
South
Jeff Historian
Hoor
National
Virginia Beach
Potts
CSS
Conservation Research Laboratory
Texas A&m University
College Station
Texas