Sinking the Sultana, a Civil War story of imprisonment, greed, and a doomed journey home
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Sinking the Sultana, a Civil War story of imprisonment, greed, and a doomed journey home
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eng
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non fiction
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Sinking the Sultana
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electronic resource
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Candlewick on BrillianceAudio
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a Civil War story of imprisonment, greed, and a doomed journey home
Summary
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?
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juvenile
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- Steam-boiler explosions + History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature
- Steamboat disasters -- Mississippi River -- History -- 19th century
- Steamboat disasters -- Mississippi River -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature
- Prisoners of war -- Confederate States of America -- Biography
- Electronic books
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives -- Juvenile literature
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives
- Prisoners of war -- Confederate States of America -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons -- Juvenile literature
- Sultana (Steamboat) -- Juvenile literature
- Steam-boiler explosions + History -- 19th century
- Prisoners of war -- United States -- Biography
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- Steam-boiler explosions + History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature
- Steamboat disasters -- Mississippi River -- History -- 19th century
- Steamboat disasters -- Mississippi River -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature
- Prisoners of war -- Confederate States of America -- Biography
- Electronic books
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives -- Juvenile literature
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives
- Prisoners of war -- Confederate States of America -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons -- Juvenile literature
- Sultana (Steamboat) -- Juvenile literature
- Steam-boiler explosions + History -- 19th century
- Prisoners of war -- United States -- Biography
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