article_snippet: The first artifacts from the Confederate Civil War ship CSS Georgia have been recovered.
article_snippet: The ship, which was built in 1862 but never fired a shot in the Civil War, has begun yielding items that haven't seen the surface for 150 years before being excavated near Savannah, Georgia .
article_snippet: Divers have recovered 400 artifacts from the CSS Georgia, which is being excavated after sitting in the Savannah River for the last 150 years.
article_snippet: A  man recently snapped a copy of the only known photo of the ship wreckage at a Georgia garage sale, though A  man did not have the money to take the important artifact home.
article_snippet: Conservators are appealing to the public to help find the photo or others like it to add to Conservators knowledge of the vessel.
article_snippet: It was made after a group called the Ladies Gunboat Association of Savannah raised $115,000 during the war for the Ladies Gunboat Association of Savannah construction.
article_snippet: The process of removing the CSS Georgia's to deepen the Savannah harbor costs about $15million.