Pee Dee River Cannons

[Arioch]

http://www.wistv.com/story/30142491/archaeologists-pluck-3-civil-war-cannons-from-river-site

this is cool….the archeologists were quite positive about the preservation aspects of the guns….Since the river is fresh water, there was not much deterioration…according to them…

 

[donna]

Great find.

 

[Paul Gillette]

http://www.thestate.com/news/local/article36910053.html

 

[Drew]

Yep. Good find but already a thread on this.

http://civilwartalk.com/threads/pee-dee-river-canons.118137/

 

[Drew]

Great find, but third thread on this.

http://civilwartalk.com/threads/pee-dee-river-canons.118137/

http://www.civilwartalk.com/threads/civil-war-cannons-raised-from-pee-dee-river.118146/

 

[huskerblitz]

http://www.wistv.com/story/30142491/archaeologists-pluck-3-civil-war-cannons-from-river-site

this is cool….the archeologists were quite positive about the preservation aspects of the guns….Since the river is fresh water, there was not much deterioration…according to them…

Seen this on a Facebook feed. First thing that came to mind was, "Wow...it's in good shape!" This is pretty cool.

 

[War Horse]

What a find! Super cool!

 

[Patrick H]

Excellent!

 

[Drew]

I agree with "excellent" and credit is due where credit is due.

Arioch found and posted it first.

 

[CSA Today]

"For 20 years, amateur diver Bob Butler searched the murky waters of the Pee Dee River for cannons he knew had been jettisoned from a Confederate warship shortly before it was scuttled in advance of surging Union troops at the end of the Civil War

He found one in 1995 as he dove near U.S. 301 on the Florence-Marion county line. He discovered another in 2006. He was on hand seven years later as a member of the Pee Dee Research and Recovery Team when the third cannon was located.

On Tuesday, Butler watched with quiet satisfaction as a team from the University of South Carolina raised the cannons from the muddy bottom of the river, some of the final remnants of Union Gen. William Sherman's march through the Carolinas in 1865."


Read more here: http://www.thestate.com/news/local/article36910053.html#storylink=cpy

 

[Elennsar]

Well that is quite interesting.

 

[bdtex]

http://www.wistv.com/story/30142491/archaeologists-pluck-3-civil-war-cannons-from-river-site

this is cool….the archeologists were quite positive about the preservation aspects of the guns….Since the river is fresh water, there was not much deterioration…according to them…

That is awesome. Love new finds like that.

 

[Frederick14Va]

There are others out there yet to be re-discovered or should I say recovered...

Over the years Ive personally learned of the location of at least five guns.... but would be very difficult or near impossible to recover.... several field guns in the Appomattox River near Petersburg... Friends had recovered one of them.. but it was quickly confiscated... so the other two still quietly remain there... One that had been dumped in a well near the end of the war.... its still there south of Richmond .... another that is in the Chickahominy River Swamp east of Richmond... no way to get it out.... Yet another that I personally found a couple years ago... a M1861 10in mortar tube in the James River near Richmond... again no possible means to retrieve it... lol....

 

[Private Watkins]

"For 20 years, amateur diver Bob Butler searched the murky waters of the Pee Dee River for cannons he knew had been jettisoned from a Confederate warship shortly before it was scuttled in advance of surging Union troops at the end of the Civil War

He found one in 1995 as he dove near U.S. 301 on the Florence-Marion county line. He discovered another in 2006. He was on hand seven years later as a member of the Pee Dee Research and Recovery Team when the third cannon was located.

On Tuesday, Butler watched with quiet satisfaction as a team from the University of South Carolina raised the cannons from the muddy bottom of the river, some of the final remnants of Union Gen. William Sherman's march through the Carolinas in 1865."


Read more here: http://www.thestate.com/news/local/article36910053.html#storylink=cpy

Nice story... thanks for sharing it.

 

[TinCan]

Love stories like that....neat to find something from that era.

 

[ErnieMac]

Newswise — A team of underwater archaeologists from the University of South Carolina raised three Civil War cannons – each weighing upwards of 15,000 pounds – from the silty sediment of South Carolina's Great Pee Dee River near Florence, S.C., on Tuesday (Sept. 29).

The two Confederate Brooke rifle cannons (11.8 and 12.25 feet each) and one captured Union Dahlgren cannon (8.9 feet) were artillery of the CSS Pee Dee, a 150-foot Confederate gunboat, a Macon-class gunboat built to patrol waterways and protect the coast.

http://www.newswise.com/articles/uo...f-civil-war-cannons-from-scuttled-css-pee-dee