Sultana: Surviving the Civil War, Prison, and the Worst Maritime Disaster in American History

In April 1865, the steamboat Sultana slowly moved up the Mississippi River, its overtaxed engines straining under...
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Author: Alan Huffman
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Sultana: Surviving the Civil War, Prison, and the Worst Maritime Disaster in American History by Huffman, Alan

Sultana: Surviving the Civil War, Prison, and the Worst Maritime Disaster in American History

€25,06

Sultana: Surviving the Civil War, Prison, and the Worst Maritime Disaster in American History

€25,06
Author: Alan Huffman
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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.



Author: Alan Huffman
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 04/06/2010
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 7.95h x 5.37w x 0.79d
ISBN: 9780061470561

About the Author
Huffman, Alan: -

A partner in the political research firm Huffman & Rejebian, Alan Huffman has been a farmer; newspaper reporter; and aide to a Mississippi attorney general and a Mississippi governor. A contributor to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the New York Times, Smithsonian magazine and other publications, he is the author of Ten Point, Mississippi in Africa and Sultana.

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