CSS Muscogee
The incomplete CSS Jackson (Muscogee) on the Chattahoochee River
shortly after December 22, 1864
Namesake: Muscogee People
Builder: Columbus Navy Yard, Columbus, GA
Laid Down: 1862
Launched: December 22, 1862
Renamed: Jackson, sometime in 1864
Fate: Burned, April 17, 1865
Status: Wreck salvaged, 1962-1963; on display at the National Civil War Naval Museum, Columbus, Georgia
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Characteristics
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Type: Casemate Ironclad
Tonnage: 1,250 tons
Length: 223 ft. 6 in.
Beam: 59 ft.
Draft: 8 ft.
Propulsion: 2 x propellers
2 x direct-acting steam engines
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​CSS Muscogee and Chattahoochee
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
NHRP reference No. 700000212
(https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/700000212
Added to NRHP: May 13, 1970
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Armament
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4 x 7-in. Brooke rifles
2 x 6.4-in. Brooke rifles
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Battles
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Was never completed due to the shortage of iron. After the Union's Wilson's raiders capture during the Battle of Columbus, the Jackson was set ablaze by the Union troops while still fitting our and had her mooring cut.
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CSS Muscogee. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS_Muscogee. Acessed: 14 Jaunuary 2026.
Current, Richard N. ed. "Jackson." Encyclopedia of the Confederacy. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. p 839
Luraghi, Raimondo. A History of the Confederate Navy. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1996. p 280, 338
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