Archaeologists pluck 3 Civil War cannons from river site
Source: AP
BY SUSANNE M. SCHAFER
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Archaeologists have pulled three heavy cast iron Civil War cannons from the waters of a South Carolina river where they were hidden for 150 years.
Using a front loader's mechanical arm, the three weapons were plucked from the much of the Pee Dee River on Tuesday morning.
South Carolina state archaeologist Johnathan Leader says the cannon are in pristine condition because they were in fresh river water, not salt water. Confederate forces pushed the cannons into the river from a gunboat to keep Union forces from seizing them in 1865.
Researchers from the University of South Carolina's Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology have been working since 2009 at the site of the Confederate Mars Bluff Navy Yard, located east of Florence along the Pee Dee River.
Two more photos at link.
In this photo provided by the University of South Carolina, University of South Carolina archaeologist and state archaeologist Jon Leader washes and inspects one of the three Civil War cannons pulled from the Pee Dee River on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2015, in Mars Bluff, S.C. The three cannons were dumped in the river by Confederate forces from the gunboat CSS Pee Dee in 1865 in order to keep them from falling into the hands of Union forces. (Margaret "Peggy" Ryan Binette/University of South Carolina via AP)
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We beat you just fine without them...
If you can recognize what it is, that's pristine!!
jesus barry christ
Maybe AP writer has some much on her/his keyboard 