From Dale Cox's Jan. 10, 2010 Explore Southern History Blog.
A section of the stern of this wooden Confederate warship is now at the National Civil War Museum in Columbus, Georgia. The rest is still in the Chattahoochee River. It was commissioned Jan. 1, 1863, at the Confederate Naval Yard in Early County, Georgia and under the command of Lt. Catesby ap R. Jones who had commanded the CSS Virginia in its fight with the USS Monitor.
He brought a lot of the officers and men from the Virginia to his new command.
The Chattahoochee's armament: one 32-pdr. rifle, a 9-inch gun, four 32-pdr smoothbores. It had three retractable masts and two independently-operating steam-powered propulsion systems to navigate sharp river bends.
It was by far the most powerful warship operating in the in the Apalachicola, Chattahoochee and Flint river systems.
Not Much to look at Today, But Mighty Powerful in Its Day. --B-R'er
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