Sultana
Surviving the Civil War, Prison, and the Worst Maritime Disaster in American History
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ISBN-13:
9780061470561
Veröffentl:
2010
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
06.04.2010
Seiten:
320
Autor:
Alan Huffman
Gewicht:
405 g
Format:
203x133x19 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
In April 1865, the steamboat Sultana slowly moved up the Mississippi River, its overtaxed engines straining under the weight of twenty-four hundred passengers--mostly Union soldiers, recently paroled from Confederate prison camps. At 2 a.m., three of Sultana's four boilers exploded. Within twenty minutes, the boat went down in flames, and an estimated seventeen hundred lives were lost.The worst maritime disaster in American history, the sinking of the Sultana is a forgotten tragedy lost in the turmoil of the times--the war's end, the assassination of President Lincoln, the pursuit of John Wilkes Booth. Alan Huffman presents this harrowing story in gripping and vivid detail and paints a moving portrait of four individual soldiers who survived the Civil War's final hell to make it back home.
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