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Civil War shipwrecks off IOP coast are here to stay amidst a beach restoration project

ISLE OF PALMS, S.C. (WCBD) – Off the Isle of Palms coast sits a Civil War-era shipwreck. After being undisturbed for more ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A Confederate Raider Fired the Final Shots of the Civil War in the Arctic, Two and a Half Months After Robert E. Lee Surrendered

The CSS “Shenandoah” only learned of the Confederacy’s defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser’s crew sank 24 American merchant vessels, unaware that the conflict had already ended ...
Miami Herald

Riverbed washes away in NC to reveal 1862 shipwreck is wrapped around older ship

This section of image from The Illustrated London shows the USS Picket leading “ships of the Burnside Expedition over the bar at Hatteras Inlet” in January 1862, according to the North Carolina ...
Phys.org

Fungal secrets of a sunken ship: Advanced decay found throughout USS Cairo despite past wood preservation efforts

University of Minnesota researchers studied the microbial degradation of the USS Cairo, one of the first ironclad and steam-powered gunboats used in the United States Civil War. Studies of microbial ...