Civil War Auction
Lot 58a:
Description
This lot of 4 cast iron pieces of the CSS (Nashville) Rattlesnake were retrieved by a group of local Georgia teens back in the late 1970s. The CSS Rattlesnake sunk by the USS Montauk, Wissahickon, Seneca, and Dawn on the Ogeechee River near Fort McAllister, Georgia on February 28, 1863. In 1985, the 3 amateur archeologists published a book about their exploits and recovery of the ship they found when they were kids. Included is 3 pieces of the armored deck that had a raised star design that worked to protect the boiler and the stars created a bit of a non-slip deck. The forth piece is a 2″ ring that looks to be a boiler pipe ring. Also included are three pages from the 3 Civil War archaeologists titled book “Tangled Machinery and Charred Relics by Franklin Chance, Paul Chance and David Topper published in 1985. The picture show a larger piece on the star armored plate being pulling from the river. There are copies of this book available online. This is exstremly unique literal piece lot of Confederate navy history.
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