
Destruction of the Steamboat Sultana
Author: Salecker, Gene Eric
ISBN: 9781682477434
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RM309.01
Publisher,Naval Inst Pr
Publication Date,
Format, Hardcover
Weight, 929.86 g
No. of Pages, 497
The Sultana was a sidewheel Mississippi steamboat carrying almost two thousand recently-released Union prisoners-of-war back north at the end of the Civil War. At 2:00 a.m. on April 27, 1865, when the boat was seven miles above Memphis, her boilers exploded. Almost 1,200 people perished in the worst maritime disaster in United States history--