Destruction of the Steamboat Sultana : the worst maritime disaster in American history /
Salecker, Gene Eric, 1957-
Destruction of the Steamboat Sultana : the worst maritime disaster in American history / Gene Eric Salecker. - x, 497 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-480) and index.
"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"--
9781682477434 1682477436
2021049931
Sultana (Steamboat)
Steamboat disasters--History--Mississippi River--19th century.
United States--History--Prisoners and prisons.--Civil War, 1861-1865
Destruction of the Steamboat Sultana : the worst maritime disaster in American history / Gene Eric Salecker. - x, 497 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-480) and index.
"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"--
9781682477434 1682477436
2021049931
Sultana (Steamboat)
Steamboat disasters--History--Mississippi River--19th century.
United States--History--Prisoners and prisons.--Civil War, 1861-1865