Ironclad CSS Jackson
The CSS Jackson was an ironclad built in Columbus, Georgia for Confederate States Navy service. Launched in December 1864, it was nearly completed when US Army raiders captured it in April 1864. The raiders set it ablaze and cut it loose, letting the ship drift downriver until it ran aground, burned to the waterline and sank. The ship remains were salvaged and brought to this museum. A metal frame shows the outline of the ironclad upper works as they had been before being destroyed. Not to be confused with an earlier CSS Jackson, a gunboat destroyed to prevent its capture in New Orleans, Louisiana, in April 1862.
At the National Civil War Naval Museum, Columbus, Georgia. I visited this place on May 11, 2016.
Ironclad CSS Jackson
The CSS Jackson was an ironclad built in Columbus, Georgia for Confederate States Navy service. Launched in December 1864, it was nearly completed when US Army raiders captured it in April 1864. The raiders set it ablaze and cut it loose, letting the ship drift downriver until it ran aground, burned to the waterline and sank. The ship remains were salvaged and brought to this museum. A metal frame shows the outline of the ironclad upper works as they had been before being destroyed. Not to be confused with an earlier CSS Jackson, a gunboat destroyed to prevent its capture in New Orleans, Louisiana, in April 1862.
At the National Civil War Naval Museum, Columbus, Georgia. I visited this place on May 11, 2016.