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Up next, a story from the South Carolina Military Museum in Columbia, South Carolina, the state's

capital, about a little bit of maritime history.

In particular, one ship called the Georgiana.

Here's John Freeman with the story.

It's called the SS Georgiana, not the CSS as confederate ships were sometimes called,

but the SS because technically at the time, technically it was a civilian ship.

So Georgiana started getting made in Glasgow, actually in Scotland, because it's a neutral territory.

And when the South went to war in the Civil War,

they didn't really have the industrial base

to build a navy that could rival the United States.

I mean, that's a tall feat.

So what they did have, though, is money

from selling their cash crops overseas.

And so they would get some of these ports

to build them ships that they couldn't.

So this boat started getting made.

And there was an interesting spy game that happened

between United States spies were over there

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