From the December 27 Houston Chronicle:
A 150-year-old Civil War ship and its contents is on its way to Texas City after being excavated from the bottom of the Houston Ship Channel and restored in a five-year project.The USS Westfield, which sank in the Battle of Galveston in 1863, was brought to the surface in 2009 in what was the largest maritime archaeological rescue project ever undertaken in Texas.Once up, archaeological conservators discovered hundreds of artifacts including belt buckles from the crew, boiler and engine parts as well as live ammunition.The star of the find is a 12-foot-long cannon, which could have fired projectiles over a mile and a half. [The gun is a IX-inch Dahlgren, the only one of Westfield's guns not salvaged by the Confederates.]
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