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Sally M. Walker

Sinking the Sultana

A Civil War Story of Imprisonment, Greed, and a Doomed Journey Home

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The worst maritime disaster in American history wasn't the Titanic. It was the steamboat Sultana on the Mississippi River — and it could have been prevented.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 boat 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 whe… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-7636-7755-8
  • EAN: 9780763677558
  • Produktnummer: 22236095
  • Verlag: Random House N.Y.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
  • Seitenangabe: 208 S.
  • Sonstiges: Ab 10 J.

Über den Autor


Sally M. Walker is the author of the Sibert Medal winner Secrets of a Civil War Submarine as well as many other nonfiction books, including Boundaries: How the Mason-Dixon Line Settled a Family Feud and Divided a Nation. Sally M. Walker lives in Illinois.

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