![]() The museum is perhaps most proud of its re-creation of the CSS Albemarle, yet another wartime casualty. Next to the turret is another full-size replica, of the USS Hartford, whose creaky interior floors lead past a wardroom where costumed surgeons sometimes perform mock bloody operations on its dinner table. A boy sailor "Powder Monkey" slumps on deck, probably wondering how to survive his enlistment (Too bad, kid the Monitor sank in 1862). The museum has recreations as well, including a full-size replica of the big turret of the Monitor, precise down to the cannonball dents from its battle with the Merrimack. A "ghost ship" superstructure dangles over the wreck to show the parts that didn't survive.Ī nearby electrolysis tank - which we mistook for a Sink the Ironclad arcade game - shows how the museum gets the rust out of waterlogged parts before they're put on display. ![]() The Jackson's hull spreads outward like the half-gnawed ribcage of a wooden water monster. ![]() It's showcased in a cavernous, air-conditioned room - a big plus in steamy Georgia - and kept dark as if to suggest its entombment in river mud. The museum's star is the salvaged hulk of the CSS Jackson, dredged from the Chattahoochee a century after it was torched by Yankee raiders. ![]() ![]() Columbus is on the Chattahoochee River, and its Confederate shipyard was as safely removed as a boat could get from the Gulf of Mexico. The museum is in Columbus, Georgia, 250 miles from the nearest ocean, but ironclads were mostly ships of rivers and bays. Most ironclads burned or sank or both, yet the National Civil War Naval Museum has a surprising amount of what's left. ![]()
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