The ironclad that bore the name CSS Tuscaloosa was built at the Selma Naval Works with four-inch iron armor plating. Woefully underpowered, she was still outfitted with four formidable smoothbore ...

The CSS Georgia continues to surprise archaeologists ... in 1862 (roughly $2 million to $3 million today) to construct the ironclad, whose armor or "casemate" was fashioned from alternating ...

it wasn't long before a new ironclad entered the water: the USS Monitor. But it wasn't alone. The CSS Virginia, formerly the USS Merrimack, was ready to engage, and on March 9, 1862, the age of ...

The team, a group of marine archaeologists from Panamerican Consultants, Inc., was recovering and preserving small artifacts from the CSS Georgia, a Civil War-era ironclad that rests at the bottom ...

A short History Clip of how the Ironclad ships were used during the Civil War. And the battle between the Css Virginia and the USS Monitor. The Civil War history runs deep in Virginia! Senator ...

After 150 years at the bottom of the Savannah River, the armored skeleton of the Confederate warship CSS Georgia is being ... 250,000 pounds of the Civil War ironclad's armored siding.

he expected the battle-tested Confederate ironclad, the CSS Arkansas, to occupy the Union ships in the water. But engine trouble from a collision with a Union ship a few days earlier kept the ...

A team of marine archaeologists last week recovered a 9,000 pound cannon from the CSS Georgia ... The ship had never fired a shot. The ironclad remained undisturbed for more than a century ...