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A Reconnaissance of the Chattahoochee River at Columbus, Georgia

Report Number
9630
Year of Publication
1982
Abstract

Civil War records indicate that Union forces under the comma n d of General E. F . Winslow disposed of more than sixty pieces of Confederate ordnance captured when Columbus , Georgia, was occupied in April, 1865, by dumping the cannon into the Chattahoochee River " To assist the Confederate Naval Museum in determining if the ordnance remained in the river, Tidewater Atlantic Research carried out a reconnaissance survey designed to use magnetic remote sensing equipment to identify anomalies generate d by cultural material. Although the investigation produced no evidence of the abandoned ordnance , survey activities identified vessel remains at five locations , a complex series of pilings adjacent to the Confederate Navy Yard , and re located the remains of the CSS Chattahoochee.