Destruction of the C.S.S. Nashville - Richmond Hill, GA
N 31° 53.343 W 081° 11.981
17R E 481116 N 3528155
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. Machinery from the NASHVILLE is displayed here
Waymark Code: WM3R0Q
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 05/08/2008
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photo from the DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL
HISTORICAL CENTER
web site
From historical markers at the site:
"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."
"These portions of rotating machinery were removed, 1960, from
the wreck of the Confederate blockade runner NASHVILLE, sunk in the
Ogeechee River by shell fire from the U.S.S. MONTAUK in Feb., 1863.
These relics give some conception of the power of the NASHVILLE's
engine."