TY  - BOOK
AU  - Salecker,Gene Eric
ED  - Naval Institute Press,
TI  - Destruction of the Steamboat Sultana: the worst maritime disaster in American history 
SN  - 9781682477434
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Annapolis, Maryland
PB  - Naval Institute Press
KW  - Sultana (Steamboat)
KW  - Steamboat disasters
KW  - Mississippi River
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - United States
KW  - Civil War, 1861-1865
KW  - Prisoners and prisons
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-480) and index
N2  - "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"--
ER  -