Sultana: Surviving the Civil War, Prison, and the Worst Maritime Disaster in American History by Alan Huffman

Sultana: Surviving the Civil War, Prison, and the Worst Maritime Disaster in American History

Alan Huffman

300 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional informative slow-paced
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On an April night in 1865, the steamboat Sultana slowly moved up the Mississippi, its overtaxed engines straining under the weight of an estimated 2,400 passengers. Most were sick or injured Union soldiers recently paroled from Confederate prison ...

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