Sinking Of The Sultana April 27 1865
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Sultana Tragedy The
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Author : Jerry O. Potter
language : en
Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company
Release Date : 1992-02-29
Sultana Tragedy The written by Jerry O. Potter and has been published by Pelican Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-02-29 with History categories.
Lee Surrenders! "President Murdered!" "Booth Killed!" screamed the headlines of American newspapers in April 1865, leaving little room for mention of a maritime disaster that to this day is America's worst. On April 27, 1865, the Sultana, a 260-foot, wooden-hulled steamboat-smaller than the Titanic but carrying more passengers-exploded on the Mississippi River near Memphis, Tennessee. More than 1,800 men, mostly Union soldiers on their way home from Confederate prison camps, died. On board were over 2,400 passengers-six times the ship's legal capacity. Although jubilant about the war's end, most of the men were weakened by malnutrition and disease from their imprisonment at Andersonville and Cahaba. Hundreds who were not killed in the explosion drowned in the cold, swift waters of the muddy river. Because of the timing of the sinking, coverage of the Sultana's demise was scant, and the tragedy has passed almost unnoticed in the pages of American history. In this highly documented book, author Jerry Potter focuses on how greed, indifference, gross stupidity, and criminal misconduct reaching as far as the White House led to the overloading of the Sultana at Vicksburg. Such irresponsible conduct characterized the actions of President Lincoln, an entire chain of army command, and several profit-hungry civilians. This authoritative work contains abundant photographs and illustrations, as well as the most complete list of the ship's passengers available.
The Explosion Of The Ss Sultana
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Author : Charles River Charles River Editors
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2018-02-09
The Explosion Of The Ss Sultana written by Charles River Charles River Editors and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-09 with categories.
*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the explosion and sinking of the Sultana *Includes a bibliography for further reading There is a popular saying that declares "timing is everything," and in no other field of study is that truer than in history. For instance, under normal conditions, a ship that sank with more than 2,000 passengers aboard - most of whom died - would be big news, yet today the sinking of the SS Sultana is often overlooked if not entirely forgotten. While it might have generated the type of publicity and reaction of the Johnstown Flood of 1889 or the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 under normal circumstances, the explosion and sinking of the Sultana on April 27, 1865 has become something of a historical footnote. The irony is that the Sultana is a historical footnote because of the Civil War, but it was also intimately tied to the war. Although Robert E. Lee's surrender to Ulysses Grant at Appomattox was not technically the end of the Civil War, it took one of the last remaining Confederate armies out of the field. Furthermore, on the night of April 14, many of the Union's hopes for the future were dashed when President Abraham Lincoln was shot at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D. C. The people of the nation quickly became a volatile mix of grief and outrage, uninterested in anything that did not relate to the death of their beloved president. In fact, just the day before the disaster, as the Sultana was sailing up the Mississippi River to her rendezvous with destiny, Union Army soldiers cornered and killed Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth. The Sultana's chief engineer, N. Wintringer, tried to give his readers a sense of the context in which the accident took place when he wrote, "As I was chief engineer of that ill-fated steamer at the time of her explosion I thought that my recollections of that terrible calamity would be of some interest. I believe that George Oayton, one of the pilots and myself were the only officers of the boat that escaped with our lives. ... The 'Sultana' left Cairo on that fatal trip the 15th of April, 1865, the day after the death of President Lincoln, and as all wire communications with the south were cut off at that time, the 'Sultana' carried the news of his assassination and death to all points and military posts on the Mississippi river as far as New Orleans." In short, the entire nation was in a state of chaos and too exhausted from four years of war that culminated in the death of the president to give the disaster the attention and grief it deserved. Perhaps the cruelest irony of the disaster is that the Sultana was packed full of men who had survived every conceivable trial and tribulation of the war, from wounds and sicknesses to being prisoners. Having lost hundreds of thousands, America was almost numb to the loss of a couple of thousand more, especially when many of the dead were soldiers themselves, and in a sense, it was left for future generations to try to unravel what went wrong and to pay tribute to the men who died on that dark night. The Explosion of the SS Sultana chronicles the story of America's deadliest maritime disaster. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about the explosion and sinking of the Sultana like never before, in no time at all.
The Sultana
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
The Sultana written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Steamboat disasters categories.
Newspaper and magazine articles tell the story of the sinking of the Sultana, a steamboat carrying federal prisoners of war north after the Civil War.
Disaster On The Mississippi
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Author : Gene Eric Salecker
language : en
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Release Date : 1996
Disaster On The Mississippi written by Gene Eric Salecker and has been published by US Naval Institute Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with History categories.
The author's knowledgeable narrative is interwoven with personal reminiscences, including those of the heroic rescuers. He offers unprecedented details about the captain's handling of the steamboat and corrects some long-held myths about the placement of the soldiers on the Sultana and newspaper coverage of the disaster.
Sinking Of The Sultana April 27 1865
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Author : John H. Lundquist
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Sinking Of The Sultana April 27 1865 written by John H. Lundquist and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with categories.
This list is an alphabetical listing of the 1191 men cited in the newspaper article in "Cincinnati Weekly Commercial" for May 4, 1865. It includes the names of passengers on board the Sultana when it exploded early in the morning a few miles upriver from Memphis, Tennessee. Only Ohio soldiers and those admitted to hospitals were listed in the article.
Burning Waters The Disaster Of The Ss Sultana
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Author : Leo Owen
language : en
Publisher: Leo Owen
Release Date : 2024-07-15
Burning Waters The Disaster Of The Ss Sultana written by Leo Owen and has been published by Leo Owen this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-07-15 with History categories.
In the early hours of April 27, 1865, a catastrophic explosion tore through the SS Sultana, a Mississippi River steamboat packed with over 2,300 passengers, most of them Union soldiers recently released from Confederate prison camps. The boilers, overburdened and in poor repair, erupted with devastating force, transforming a night of hopeful passage into a nightmare of scalding steam and engulfing flames. "Burning Waters" chronicles the deadliest maritime disaster in United States history. Amidst the dark, frigid waters of the Mississippi, survivors fought for their lives against the inferno and treacherous currents, while rescue efforts were hampered by the river’s dangerous conditions. Largely overshadowed by the assassination of President Lincoln and the end of the Civil War, the Sultana disaster damaged over 1,800 lives and left an indelible mark on American history. This gripping account delves into the human stories of heroism, heartbreak, and survival, shedding light on a tragedy that should never be forgotten.
Sultana
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Author : D. H. Rule
language : en
Publisher: Variations on a Theme
Release Date : 2013-09-05
Sultana written by D. H. Rule and has been published by Variations on a Theme this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-05 with Steamboat disasters categories.
From the groundbreaking North & South magazine article, featured on The History Channel in "Civil War Terror," and in PBS "History Detectives." GET THE WHOLE STORY of Confederate boatburner and spy, Robert Louden, called the "murderer of the age." Learn about his connection to the captain of the steamer Sultana, and about the band of saboteurs responsible for destroying 60 or more steamboats on the Mississippi River during the Civil War. Convicted of destroying a steamer carrying millions of payroll meant for Grant's forces, sentenced to death, and coming within minutes of hanging, find out how Lincoln's stay of execution of Robert Louden may have led to a worse maritime disaster than the sinking of Titanic. Among the steamboats destroyed on the Mississippi River, the one with the largest single loss of life was the steamer Sultana. The boat had been loaded with over 2000 people, most of them Union POWs returning from Southern prison camps. When the Sultana exploded and burned, as many as 1800 people were killed as many Union soldiers died on the river that night as died on the battlefield of Shiloh. With them died a number of women, children, and civilian men. Was it an accident? Or sabotage? Excerpt from Sultana: A Case For Sabotage Seven miles out of Memphis, at 2:00 a.m. on April 27, 1865, the steamer Sultana chugged northward loaded with over twenty-three hundred people, most of them Union soldiers returning home from southern prison camps. Without warning, an explosion ripped through the boilers, scalding steam burst out, and a shower of flaming coal shot upward into the night, raining down on the crowded boat, which in moments was engulfed in flames. Over seventeen hundred people died, making the destruction of Sultana a maritime disaster worse than the sinking of the Titanic. This publication also includes the full-length version of the originally published North & South article, with all footnotes and sources.
Loss Of The Sultana And Reminiscences Of Survivors
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Author : Chester D. Berry
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1892
Loss Of The Sultana And Reminiscences Of Survivors written by Chester D. Berry and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1892 with Steamboat disasters categories.
Sinking The Sultana
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Author : Sally M. Walker
language : en
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Release Date : 2017-11-14
Sinking The Sultana written by Sally M. Walker and has been published by Candlewick Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-14 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
The worst maritime disaster in American history wasn’t the Titanic. It was the steamboat Sultana on the Mississippi River — and it was completely preventable. In 1865, the Civil War was winding down and the country was reeling from Lincoln’s assassination. Thousands of Union soldiers, released from Confederate prisoner-of-war camps, were to be transported home on the steamboat Sultana. With a profit to be made, the captain rushed repairs to the ship so the soldiers wouldn’t find transportation elsewhere. More than 2,000 passengers boarded in Vicksburg, Mississippi . . . on a boat with a capacity of 376. The journey was violently interrupted when the ship’s boilers exploded, plunging the Sultana into mayhem; passengers were bombarded with red-hot iron fragments, burned by scalding steam, and flung overboard into the churning Mississippi. Although rescue efforts were launched, the survival rate was dismal — more than 1,500 lives were lost. In a compelling, exhaustively researched account, renowned author Sally M. Walker joins the ranks of historians who have been asking the same question for 150 years: who (or what) was responsible for the Sultana’s disastrous fate?
Destruction Of The Steamboat Sultana
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Author : Gene E Salecker
language : en
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Release Date : 2022-03-15
Destruction Of The Steamboat Sultana written by Gene E Salecker and has been published by Naval Institute Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-15 with History categories.
The Sultana was a sidewheel Mississippi steamboat carrying almost two thousand recently-released Union prisoners-of-war back north at the end of the Civil War. At 2:00 a.m. on April 27, 1865, when the boat was seven miles above Memphis, her boilers exploded. Almost 1,200 people perished in the worst maritime disaster in United States history. Gene Eric Salecker covers this disaster in detail and dispels the many myths that have been connected to the Sultana for too long. Almost every author who has written about the Sultana has relied on the words of a few survivors or referred to the works of previous authors to get their story. Advancing the scholarship, the author has visited the National Archives in Washington, DC, to comb through the handwritten transcripts of the three investigative bodies that looked into the disaster or poured over the handwritten testimony from the court-martial trial of Capt. Frederic Speed, the only person tried for the overcrowding of the vessel. In 1996, after extensive research and using the most current sources available at that time, Salecker wrote Disaster on the Mississippi: The Sultana Explosion, April 27, 1865. Still, there were inevitable omissions. After almost twenty-five years of continued research on the Sultana, and all those involved in the disaster, Salecker has gleaned unparalleled knowledge into every aspect of the disaster. His research, covering the National Archives, and thousands of pages of newspapers from around the world and government documents, including pension records and service records, has allowed Gene to tell the story of the Sultana as completely as possible. By bringing his research back to primary sources, Salecker dispels myths and adds to the story of the Sultana. In Destruction of the Steamboat Sultana: The Worst Maritime Disaster in American History paroled prisoners, civilian passengers, guards, crew members, rescuers, and eyewitnesses tell their stories in their own words. The true, and complete, story about the Sultana and the disaster has finally, and fully, been told.