Confederate Navy Yard, Saffold-GHM 049-9-Early Co
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N 31° 06.727 W 085° 01.898
16R E 687709 N 3443694
US 84 about 3.5 miles west of Jakin at the river
Waymark Code: WMAK2Z
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 01/23/2011
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At Saffold, "accessible by steamboats from all points on the river ", David S. Johnston operated the Southern Confederate States Navy Yard. Here the gunboat Chattahoochee was built under contract signed October 19, 1861. Lt. Catesby ap R. Jones, CSN, formerly executive and ordinance officer aboard the Virginia (Merrimack) and her commander during a portion of her battle with the Monitor, was ordered in July 1862, to Saffold to supervise completion of the Chattahoochee and to assume command of this gunboat. Lt. Jones remained with the Chattahoochee until January 1863.
May 27, 1863, the Chattahoochee, J.J. Guthrie, Lieutenant Commanding, determined to recapture the Schooner FASHION captured by the Federals below Blountstown, Fla., on the Apalachicola River. A boiler on the Chattahoochee exploded, killing sixteen of her crew. sunk to her decks after the explosion, she was raised and taken to Columbus for repairs and destroyed there by Confederates at the close of the war.
Lt. J.J. Guthrie also commanded the Naval forces at Staffold during a portion of the War Between the States
GHM 049-9 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1961
Type of Marker: Highway
Marker #: 049-9
Date: 1961
Sponsor: Georgia Historical Commission
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