Guns of the Pee Dee (eBook)

The Cannon Recovery

Ted L Gragg (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018 | softcover
276 Seiten
Distributed By Ingram Spark (Verlag)
978-0-9794572-5-8 (ISBN)

Infos

This book recounts the historical and archaeological efforts to discover and recover three cannons wrapped up in the shroud of history and in the murky and meandering waters of the Great Pee Dee River near Florence, South Carolina. Jettisoned in the river by the crew of the Confederate gunboat Pee Dee in the waning days of the Civil War, these naval weapons inspired a lengthy, difficult, surprising, yet ultimately successful search for the three cannons. And, along the way the searchers explored the Mars Bluff Naval Yard, remains of the gunboat, and more importantly, forged together individuals and organizations founded on a mutual interest in uncovering and learning about the past naval activities at this forgotten and out-of-the-way theater during the Civil War....

Inhalt

Book I: The Search

Book II: The Recovery

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.10.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Schlagworte: 1860-1865 • archaeological • Blackwater diving • Cannon • Civil War • Confederate • fresh water scuba diving • Great Pee Dee River • Guns • metal detecting • naval • Navy • Pee Dee • Recovery Preservation • Scuba • Search • South Carolina
• ISBN-10: 0-9794572-5-4 / 0979457254
• ISBN-13: 978-0-9794572-5-8 / 9780979457258