Ted L Gragg

Guns of the Pee Dee (eBook, ePUB)

The Cannon Recovery

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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....

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Flat River Rock Publishing Co.
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780979457258
• Artikelnr.: 60431479

Autorenporträt

Ted L. Gragg is the author of two non-fictional historical works and two fictional adventure novels. He is the founder of the CSS Pee Dee Research and Recovery Team for riverine and land-based South Carolina Civil War Archaeology with an emphasis on the Confederate Naval Yard at Mars Bluff, S.C..