Destruction of the Steamboat Sultana: The Worst Maritime Disaster in American History by Gene Eric Salecker
Destruction of the Steamboat Sultana: The Worst Maritime Disaster in American History
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Gene Eric Salecker
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Destruction of the Steamboat Sultana: The Worst Maritime Disaster in American History

Gene Eric Salecker

528 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction challenging emotional informative medium-paced
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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 boiler...

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