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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
Originally published in 1892, "Loss of the Sultana and
Reminiscences of Survivors is a collection of first-hand accounts
by those who lived to tell the story of perhaps the worst maritime
disaster in U.S. history. One the Mississippi River just above
Memphis at two o'clock on the morning of April 27, 1865, the
steamboat "Sultana, carrying over 2,400 passengers (it was licensed
to carry only 356), exploded and sank. Over 1,700 people perished.
Most of the passengers were Union soldiers recently released from
Confederate prisons. Many were from East Tennessee. They had
boarded at Vicksburg, where the longest siege of the war had
finally ended in Confederate surrender, ending the Vicksburg
campaign. The soldiers, homeward bound from Andersonville and
Cahaba Confederate prisons. Many were from East Tennessee. They had
boarded at Vicksburg, where the longest siege of the war had
finally ended in Confederate surrender, ending the Vicksburg
campaign. The soldiers, homeward bound from Andersonville and
Cahaba Confederate prisons, had survived the terrors of battle, the
loss of close comrades, physical and psychological wounds, the
risky confinement of hospital, the humiliation of capture and
surrender, escape and recapture, homesickness, boredom, the daily
threat of death by starvation, disease, suicide, robbery, injury,
or death by raiders. Chester D. Berry--one of the
survivors--compiled facts, records, and personal accounts of other
survivors, resulting in this compelling and profound testimony to
the human spirit in the face of tragedy.
Subtitle: History of a Disaster Where Over One Thousand Five
Hundred Human Beings Were Lost, Most of Them Being Exchanged
Prisoners of War on Their Way Home After Privation and Suffering
From One to Twenty-Three Months in Cahaba and Andersonville Prisons
General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date:
1892 Original Publisher: D.D. Thorp, printer Subjects: Steamboat
disasters United States Sultana (Steamboat) Biography
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