DCHS Spring Meeting: Raising the Guns of the CSS Pee Dee
The Darlington County Historical Society will have their Spring Open Meeting on April 21 from 6 – 7:30 p.m. at Mr B’s Seafood House
Ted L. Gragg & Bob Butler will be speaking on their experiences in recovering the cannons from the C.S.S. Pee Dee at the archaeological work focusing on Confederate Naval Yard at Mars Bluff.
The 150-year-old artifacts were found in the Great Pee Dee River the Confederate Mars Bluff Naval Yard. Two of the three cannons raised out of the river were Confederate Brooke Rifle cannons while the other was a captured Union Dahlgren cannon. They each weigh about 15,000 pounds. The cannons were used during Union General William T. Sherman’s march through the Carolinas in 1865, researchers said. The Confederate troops threw the cannons off of the C.S.S. Pee Dee gunboat to avoid capture by the Union. The ship was later destroyed in the river, according to civilwar.org.
Mr B’s is located at 964 W Lydia Hwy, Hartsville. (Lydia) $14.00 covers food and program. Tickets available at: DCHS.rsvpify.com or call: 843-398-4710
