{"id":5599,"date":"2019-05-31T16:55:56","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T20:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/floridanewsline.com\/Clone2\/?p=5599"},"modified":"2019-05-31T16:55:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T20:55:56","slug":"back-in-time-with-brett-steamship-maple-leaf-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/floridanewsline.com\/Clone2\/mandarin\/back-in-time-with-brett-steamship-maple-leaf-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Back in Time with Brett | Steamship Maple Leaf \u2013 Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">By Brett Nolan<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">mail@floridanewsline.com<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last month, we learned about the last voyage of the Union steamship \u201cMaple Leaf.\u201d For nearly 125 years, the \u201cMaple Leaf\u201d was just a story lingering in the depths of Father Time\u2019s mind.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">By 1984, Dr. Keith Holland, a local Jacksonville dentist, and the St. Johns Archaeological Expeditions, Inc., located what was left of the \u201cMaple Leaf,\u201d confirming the contents inside the vessel\u2019s hull in near excellent condition. With the technology of yesteryear, Holland used navigational river charts from 1884 and layered them with modern day maps. He was able to use his findings to begin years of legal negotiations \u2014 including filing a lawsuit against the United States \u2014 finally receiving access into the ship\u2019s muddy hull.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Beneath the pitch-black, tannin river water, lights were useless. Divers could not see their hands in front of them. While not even 30 feet below the surface, diving to the boat was not a hard task, but scary would be an understatement. They were the first human contact the ship had longed for since the Union boots paraded her decks to and fro, loading the 800,000 pounds of luggage in preparation for her terminal voyage. By 1994, the St. Johns Archaeological Expeditions, Inc. concluded expeditions to the wreckage and the site received National Historic Landmark status. By then, more than 6,500 artifacts had been excavated from the muck; however, this representative sample was only a mere 0.01 percent of what was in the cargo hold.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The tragedy of the Union Transport Ship \u201cMaple Leaf,\u201d though small in the scheme of the battle amid the North and South, paints a picture of the cultural significance behind the life of a soldier during the Civil War. It tells the stories of men who have lost their voices to history, those who never wrote letters or journals \u2014 but the contents in their trunks talked to us. The artifacts detail what troops valued enough to take with them on the battlefield, things looted out of abandoned plantation homes \u2014 fine china, window panes, door knobs \u2014 even seashells collected along the shore of Folly Island to take home to their families as souvenirs (some never imagined traveling that far south had it not been for the call for service). Ambrotypes depicting loved ones, musical instruments, ceremonial military items, pipes and buttons \u2014 thousands of things still sit in the river waiting for their chance to see the light again. The \u201cMaple Leaf\u201d provides a world of cultural artifacts that are imperative to understanding the history of one of the darkest times in America.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You can view about 70 of these recovered \u201cMaple Leaf\u201d artifacts on any Saturday at the Mandarin Museum in Walter Jones Historical Park, 11964 Mandarin Road. And, you may actually meet and talk with Dr. Holland and his team of divers on the third Saturday of most months from 12 p.m. \u2013 4 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brett Nolan is a volunteer with the Mandarin Museum &amp; Historical Society. Visit www.mandarinmuseum.net for more information about Mandarin\u2019s history and schedules<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Photo courtesy of Keith Holland.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lee Manley and Keith Holland examining a recovered \u201cMaple Leaf\u201d artifact.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Brett Nolan mail@floridanewsline.com Last month, we learned about the last voyage of the Union steamship \u201cMaple Leaf.\u201d For nearly 125 years, the \u201cMaple Leaf\u201d was just a story lingering in the depths of Father Time\u2019s mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5599","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mandarin"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - 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