Thursday, September 20^th, Andersonville National Civil War Naval Museum & the National POW/MIA Memorial Cemetery

This 40,000-square-foot museum houses the remains of two Civil War Vessels: the iron-clad CSS Jackson and the gunboat CSS Chattahoochee, a steam-powered sailing ship. The museum also contains recreated sections of the USS Monitor, the ironclad CSS Albemarie, and Admiral David Glasgow Farragut�s flagship the USS Hartford. Eight wall panels show the timeline of the Civil War at sea. A collection of four Brooke rifled naval cannons made in Confederate iron foundries are also housed there.

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