article_snippet.sent: A picture, believed to be the only image of the Civil War ironclad, the CSS Georgia has been revealed to be a fake created in a teenage hoax using a 2ft model.
article_snippet.sent: John Potter, from SavannahSavannah, has admitted forging A picture, believed to be the only image of the Civil War ironclad, the CSS Georgia has been revealed to be a fake created in a teenage hoax using a 2ft model with John Potter brother in the 1980s and placing the 1980s in a frame which now holds a picture of John Potter dead dog.
article_snippet.sent: John Potter then passed on the image on to the Georgia Historical Society and the photo became an unofficial part of Civil War ship's history even though the 1980s was never authenticated.
article_snippet.sent: John Potter (pictured), from Savannah, has admitted forging A picture, believed to be the only image of the Civil War ironclad, the CSS Georgia has been revealed to be a fake created in a teenage hoax using a 2ft model with his brother in the 1980s the 1980s and placing A picture, believed to be the only image of the Civil War ironclad, the CSS Georgia has been revealed to be a fake created in a teenage hoax using a 2ft model in a frame which now holds a picture of his dead dog .
article_snippet.sent: brother Jeffrey and a friend shot a short 8mm movie about the building — and destruction — of the CSS Georgia in a fictional battle with Union troops.
article_snippet.sent: As The US Army Corps of Engineers embarked this year on a $14 million project to raise the wreckage of the real CSS Georgia from the river, archaeologists publicised the image online and in news stories hoping to track down another photo of the 2-foot model. '
article_snippet.sent: There are a lot of characteristics in the photograph that lead us to believe it is the CSS Georgia,' Julie Morgan, the Army Corps archaeologist in charge of raising the ironclad's remains, said in a February interview. '
article_snippet.sent: Robert Holcombe, former curator of the National Civil War Naval Museum in Columbus, Georgia, said in February that while the original photograph would be needed to confirm if the image was authentic, he believed it was real. '
highlights_snippet.sent: Picture believed to be sole image of Civil War ship revealed to be a fake .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Image, part of the unofficial history of Civil War ship, was never authenticated .
  