The carcass of the CSS Jackson lives at the National Civil War Museum in Columbus. It was one of the biggest ironclads used by the Confederacy during the Civil War.
little food and inadequate shelter, almost 13,000 died in conditions that often killed 100 men a day. Wirz was later tried and executed for war crimes. Graphic photos of starving survivors, published in newspapers after the war, shocked the American public. WHAT YOU’LL FIND: The prison, a cemetery and the National Prisoner of War Museum, all on a 514-acre site in Andersonville in modern-day Sumter County.
NATIONAL CIVIL WAR NAVAL MUSEUM Follow the battle at sea in Columbus. Military vessels (some brought up from the ocean floor) are housed here, along with what’s described as the nation’s largest collection of Civil War-era naval flags. The museum recently obtained a “passbox” for an IX-inch Dahlgren gun, a muzzle-loading cannon. A sailor called the “powder monkey” would carry the passbox from the ship’s hold where gunpowder was stored to the artillery crew to minimize fires and unintended explosions DETAILS: $6-7.50. 706.327.9798 or portcolumbus.org.
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DETAILS: 229.924.0343 or nps.gov/ande/index.htm.