The May 22nd WJBF TV had a video and report on the work at the Mars Bluff Confederate Naval Yard in South Carolina as well as the CSS Pee Dee.
In an area the size of a football field, archaeologists and students from three colleges are looking for footprints of up to 14 buildings from the naval yard. A $200,000 grant from the Drs. Bruce and Lee Foundation is funding the project.
The CSS Pee Dee was a 170-foot gunboat built at the yard in 1865 on the east side of the Pee Dee River. It went to Cherew, SC, later that year to cover Lt. Gen. William Hardee's crossing of the river. When it returned, it was scuttled to prevent capture and the three cannons thrown overboard.
Sure Looking Forward to Seeing Those Cannons. --B-Runner
The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.
