The Sultana Tragedy: America's Greatest Maritime Disaster by Jerry Potter

The Sultana Tragedy: America's Greatest Maritime Disaster



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The Sultana Tragedy: America's Greatest Maritime Disaster Jerry Potter
Page: 312
ISBN: 9780882898612
Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company, Incorporated

On the night of April 27, 1865, a wooden-hulled steamer overloaded with war-weary Union soldiers exploded and sank on the Mississippi River near Memphis, Tennessee. More than 1,800 soldiers, veterans of some of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War and survivors of the Andersonville and Cahaba prison camps, died en route to their homes and families in the North. The magnitude of the catastrophe was overshadowed by the turbulent events that shook our nation and filled the newspaper headlines in April of 1865-namely the end of the Civil War, the assassination of President Lincoln, and the capture of John Wilkes Booth. As a result, the explosion of the ... MORE EBOOKS:







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