One of the Confederacy's largest Ironclad Ships
- Sitting dockside when the Yankees captured Columbus in 1865, it was burned to the waterline and visitors can smell the burned wood today.
- After sinking in 1865, the Jackson was under the Chattahoochee River for 95 years.
- It was raised in 1961 for display during the Civil War Centennial.
- Visitors may view the Jackson from above the main deck, at deck level and from well under the water line.
- The wreck today weighs more than 500,000 pounds.
- Visit Port Columbus to see the largest surviving Confederate warship of the war.
The Ghost Ship of the Chattahoochee.
Columbus, Georgia was the site of a Confederate Naval Shipyard. The largest product of this facility was the CSS Jackson, one of the largest of the ironclads built in the south. The Jackson was nearly 225 feet long, 54 feet wide and weighed 2000 tons.
