A powerful account of a surprisingly forgotten tragedy of the Civil
War
A stunning wartime account of human endurance and adventure, and
an exploration of just how much the human body and mind can take,
"Sultana" follows several young Union soldiers through the Civil
War and what was, for them, its unimaginably disastrous aftermath.
We see them enlist and then almost immediately be plunged into a
cascading series of wartime horrors: Battle, trauma, prison camp,
and, finally, the sinking of the "Sultana," the steamboat that was
taking them back home.
On an April night in 1865, the "Sultana" slowly moved up the
dark Mississippi, its overtaxed engines straining under the weight
of a human cargo that included an estimated twenty-four hundred
passengers--more than six times the number it was designed to
carry. Most were weak, emaciated Union soldiers, recently paroled
from Confederate prison camps, on their way home after enduring the
violence of war. At two a.m., three of "Sultana"'s four boilers
exploded. Within twenty minutes, it went down in fire and water,
taking an estimated seventeen hundred lives.
The sinking of the "Sultana" remains the worst maritime
disaster in American history, yet due to a confluence of
contemporary events (Lincoln had recently been assassinated and the
war had ended), it soon faded into relative obscurity. Now Alan
Huffman presents this harrowing story against the backdrop of the
endless suffering already endured by its survivors. Using
contemporary research as well as digging deep into archives and
family keepsakes, Huffman paints a gripping portrait of the young
men who made it home alive.
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