Guns of the Pee Dee : The Search For the Warship CSS Pee Dee's Cannons

Guns of the Pee Dee is a fantastic spell-binding tale woven between a group of Civil War hobbyists searching for a sunken Confederate warship and the last days of a Confederate Naval Unit in South Carolina at the end of the American Civil War. The title gives the reader a clue...The missing cannons from the Confederate Warship have puzzled the U.S. Navy, archaeologists, and historians for over a century as to their whereabouts. Finally the guns have been found by the CSS Pee Dee Research and Recovery Team. 'Guns of the Pee Dee' takes the reader along on the exploratory search along the banks of South Carolina's legendary Great Pee Dee River and into its dark, swirling, and muddy waters with the intrepid divers of the CSS Peedee Research and Recovery Team as they search the river's bottom for the missing ordnance of the Confederate States Navy's vessel CSS Peedee. 'Guns of the Pee Dee' is an historical adventure. The reader experiences the building and launching of one of the Confederate Navy's warships that is destined to escape to sea and join the ranks of the CSS Alabama and the CSS Shenandoah. The war ends badly for the Confederacy and the ship CSS Peedee. But 150 years later history comes to life with the search for the missing vessel and her guns. History awaits, adventure is in the next page...and the next...until the quest reaches its conclusion. It's a page burner. Don your mask, put on your gear, and step back into time along with the members of the CSS Peedee Research and Recovery Team....the Quest begins.

Ted Gragg began his first book, a novel, in 1994 as a weekly installment for a regional wildlife magazine. These installments led to the completion of Ted's first novel the widely acclaimed PUMA. This book spun the yarn of a contest of wills between a South Carolina game warden and a wily and cunning man-eating cougar that threatened a South Carolina low-country community. Ted was serving with the S.C. Department of Natural Resources as a Deputy Wildlife Conservation Officer then. The book was reviewed by the International Game Warden magazine for Conservation Law Enforcement. Gragg formed the C.S.S. Pee Dee Research and Recovery Team to locate the remains of the sunken Confederate warship Pee Dee. He and his team were licensed and commissioned by the University of South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology. The team spent over 20 years researching the missing warship and was triumphant in finding the lost Confederate Naval Yard on South Carolina's Great Pee Dee River and recovering the three massive cannon from the ship's armament along with a treasure trove of artifacts. In agreement with the Institute, the artifacts following conservation were offered to various state museums for display. When only a few were undertaken for conservation and public display by various institutions, Ted Gragg and Connie Gragg built the South Carolina Civil War Museum to house the bulk of the recovery project. This spawned the next two highly lauded books Guns of the Pee Dee The Search for the Warship CSS Pee Dee's Cannons released in 2011. It was followed in 2018 by Guns of the Pee Dee The Cannon Recovery. The author was recognized for his contribution to the South's history by recognition by both chambers of the South Carolina General Assembly. Other awards presented to Ted for this momentous work included recognition by the University of South Carolina, Coastal Carolina University, and Horry County. The Sons of Confederate Veterans South Carolina Division awarded Ted Gragg The Commendation Medal for the historic recovery. A novel spanning the years of the American Revolutionary War in South Carolina appeared next. Defiant Carolinians, the first book in a new historical series detailed the adventures of Bowie Avery and his wife Taggan during the years of America's war for independence.