SAVANNAH, Ga. (Aug. 21, 2015) -- As cities along the East Coast scramble to bolster their infrastructure and employ massive dredges to deepen their harbors, Savannah began its harbor expansion with a ...

The end of the Civil War paved the way for some of the freedoms we see in our country today. In this week’s Amazing America ...

On October 17, 1862, the contract was signed to build the Confederate ironclad gunboat CSS Neuse. The vessel was needed to bolster southern naval defenses and to prevent Union occupation of the ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. -- After 150 years at the bottom of the Savannah River, the armored skeleton of the Confederate warship CSS Georgia is being raised to the surface one 5-ton chunk at a time. Navy divers ...

On October 12, 1861, CSS Manassas became the first ironclad to see combat at the Battle of the Head of Passes on the Mississippi River. Protected by iron or steel armor plates, ironclads held a ...

The deepening of the shipping channel in Savannah, Georgia, won’t be dredging up just mud and sand. It will be raising up a link to the past: an ironclad that protected the city during the Civil War ...

WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — The Civil War posed a great challenge to the Confederate Navy, facing a Union Navy that was well established with many more ships. They needed a solution that would allow them ...

The CSS Georgia continues to surprise archaeologists. Case in point, this 9,000-pound Dahlgren rifled cannon that archaeologists thought was a different type of cannon before raising it to the surface ...

She was scuttled rather than left to fall into Union hands during the war Now the ironclad must be moved so a shipping channel can be deepened She didn’t have enough power to maneuver and effectively ...

On March 9, 1862, Confederate Navy ship CSS Virginia and Union navy ship USS Monitor met in battle off the coast of Virginia. Their clash was inconclusive, but the battle was the first time metal ...