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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?
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.
Sultana
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Author : Alan Huffman
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2009-03-11
Sultana written by Alan Huffman and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-11 with History categories.
“One of the most riveting war stories I have ever read….Huffman’s smooth, intimate prose ushers you through this nightmare as if you were living it yourself.” —Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm The dramatic true story of the worst maritime disaster in U.S. history, Alan Huffman’s Sultana brings to breathtaking life a tragic, long forgotten event in America’s Civil War—the sinking of the steamship Sultana and the loss of 1,700 lives, mostly Union soldiers returning home from Confederate prison camps. A gripping account that reads like a nonfiction Cold Mountain, Sultana is powerful, moving, rich in irony and fascinating historical detail—a story no history aficionado or Civil War buff will want to miss.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Sultana Saga
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Author : Rex T. Jackson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003-01-01
The Sultana Saga written by Rex T. Jackson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01-01 with History categories.
On a cold night in late April 1865, on the mighty Mississippi River just north of Memphis, Tennessee, scores of unsuspecting souls suddenly found themselves desperately struggling for their lives after the boilers exploded on the riverboat steamer Sultana. Although more lives were lost in this incident than would be lost on the Titanic in 1912, these homeward bound veterans of war have been nearly forgotten by the country they served so bravely. The author rectifies this oversight with his book-length treatment of the tragedy. Most of the men served in cavalry or infantry units from Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, and Ohio, or cavalry units from Tennessee and Virginia. J2358HB - $18.00
Disaster On The Mississippi
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Author : Gene Eric Salecker
language : en
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Release Date : 2015
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 2015 with Steamboat disasters categories.
Reprint. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, A1996.