article_snippet: So it may be no surprise that among the first artifacts to be brought up from the wreck of the CSS Georgia in Savannah are two sets of leg irons.
article_snippet: Of course, the leg irons could have been used on a Federal sailor or soldier taken captive.
article_snippet: An ironstone plate commonly used in the South, a musket trigger guard and the butt stock of a gun.
article_snippet: One iron piece had eyes, or holes, that connected a gun carriage to ropes that the crew manipulated to move a gun forward and backward.
article_snippet: Another piece, a trunnion cap, helped hold the cannon to a gun carriage.
article_snippet: An X-ray of one of the leg irons shows a fair bit of corrosion.