Encyclopedia of Civil War Shipwrecks

In recent years the discovery, raising and salvaging of Civil War‐era shipwrecks has caught the public's imagination; especially noted are the treasure ship USS Republic, discovered one hundred miles southeast of Savannah, Georgia, in July 2003, a former warship commissioned by the Confederacy as the Tennessee and then captured by the Union and renamed first the USS Mobile and then later the USS Tennessee. The ship was sunk by a hurricane six months after the end of the Civil War and reportedly carried over $400,000 in gold coins. Another Civil War‐era ship, the CSS H.L. Hunley, was one...