- Destruction of the C.S.S. Nashville
Historical Marker
- Located in main parking lot in front of visitor center
at Fort McAllister State Historic Site
- 31°53.340, 081°11.982
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- DESTRUCTION OF THE C.S.S.
NASHVILLE
The swift Confederate blockade runner NASHVILLE
(renamed RATTLESNAKE) was destroyed by the monitor MONTAUK, February
28, 1863, after she went aground on a sandbar in a hairpin bend
of the Ogeechee River. The engagement was a three-way battle
with the guns of the fort firing on the MONTAUK and the MONTAUK
concentrating on the NASHVILLE. The wreck of the NASHVILLE lies
in the direction of the arrow, approximately 1200 yards.
GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION
1963
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