Upcoming trip to southern Georgia

You ought to be across the river when they fire the Brooke, it can be heard for miles.
 
When you go in the Museum,the gift shop is immediately to your right and that is where you pay your admission fee. It was $7.50 for me. As far as I could tell,there were only 2 employees working there while I was there and 1 was a maintenance man. This was on Thursday morning,6/21. When I got to the museum,I only had 2 hours at most to spend there and I had used 15 minutes of that outside. Had to leave about noon to go pick up my spouse and check out of the hotel. They have a short film to watch at the museum but I went straight to the exhibits. There is a lotta stuff in there. They have a wall of panels which is a timeline of significant naval events in addition to signage explaining all the various artifacts. Don't know about anyone else but I usually cannot read all the stuff in places like that in one visit. After awhile my eyes start to cross and my brain goes on information overload. I just do the best I can and read as much as I can but still enjoy myself.
 
Don't know about anyone else but I usually cannot read all the stuff in places like that in one visit. After awhile my eyes start to cross and my brain goes on information overload. I just do the best I can and read as much as I can but still enjoy myself.
Like you I try to read as much as possible but tend to photograph anything and everything to read at a later date.
 
Ok...this thread won't finish itself so I'm back at it. The star of the show at the National Civil War Naval Museum is the remains of the CSS Jackson. Not a bad gig for a ship that never saw any action as far as I know. Seems a miracle to me that an ironclad could even navigate the Chattahoochee River. Not much left of it and what there is is all below the waterline as far as I know. Don't know what happened to the iron.

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The other star attraction is the remains of the gunboat CSS Chattahoochee. Not much remains of it either. It was found during the recovery of the CSS Jackson and what they could get was raised 3 years later.

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Moving right along at a snail's pace the most interesting artifacts for me at the National Civil War Naval Museum are the flags on display there. Awesome stuff.

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This is a cool artifact. Flag from the CSS Tennessee:

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Another one. Fort Caswell- Wilmington,NC. The flag is pretty high up on the display wall.

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Thanks for those photos! Other than the gunboat Cairo, I didn't realize that there were other remains of ironclad vessels in museum settings.
 
Thanks for those photos! Other than the gunboat Cairo, I didn't realize that there were other remains of ironclad vessels in museum settings.
You're welcome. Recovered remains of the USS Monitor are on display at the Mariners' Museum in Newport News,VA.
 
Just a few more pics from the Naval Museum. Uniform of the Captain of the CSS Virginia:

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