CSS Muscogee/Jackson
CSS Muscogee also known as CSS Jackson was a Confederate States Navy ironclad ram, powered by a steam driven screw and deployed on the Chattahoochee River during the American Civil War.
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CSS Muscogee/Jackson
CSS Muscogee also known as CSS Jackson was a Confederate States Navy ironclad ram, powered by a steam driven screw and deployed on the Chattahoochee River during the American Civil War.Type: Ironclad Ram Launched: December 22, 1864 At: Confederate States Yard, Columbus, Georgia
Length: 223 feet, 6 inches Beam: 56 feet, 6 inches Draft: 8 feet
Armament: Four 7-inch Brooke Rifles; two 6.4-inch Brooke Rifles; two 12 pounder boat howitzers.
She was built at Columbus, Georgia, and launched in December of 1864. In April of 1865, the still incomplete CSS Muscogee (or CSS Jackson, as she was also called) was captured and burned by Union Army forces. Her remains were recovered during the 1960s from the portion of the river inside the boundaries of Fort Benning and placed on exhibit at the National Civil War Naval Museum in Columbus.
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