Originally published in 1892, Loss of the Sultana and Reminiscences of Survivorsis a collection of first-hand accounts by those who lived to tell the story of perhapsthe worst maritime disaster in U.S. history.On the Mississippi River just above Memphis at two o?clock on the morning of April27, 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 Confederateprisons. Many ...
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Originally published in 1892, Loss of the Sultana and Reminiscences of Survivorsis a collection of first-hand accounts by those who lived to tell the story of perhapsthe worst maritime disaster in U.S. history.On the Mississippi River just above Memphis at two o?clock on the morning of April27, 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 Confederateprisons. Many were from East Tennessee. They had boarded at Vicksburg, where thelongest siege of the war had finally ended in Confederate surrender, ending theVicksburg 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 andsurrender, escape and recapture, homesickness, boredom, the daily threat of death bystarvation, disease, suicide, robbery, injury, or death by raiders.Chester D. Berry?one of the survivors?compiled facts, records, and personalaccounts of other survivors, resulting in this compelling and profound testimony to thehuman spirit in the face of tragedy.
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Acceptable. Lansing, MI: Darius D. Thorp, 1892. 1st edition. 12mo hardcover in black cloth with gilt titling. 426pp. B/W plates and in-text illustrations. Fair. Exlib. Lightly marked, with single stamp to title page, offset moderately to frontis. Spine tips slightly erose and portion of spine cloth peeling back. Boards soiled and edgeworn. Front endpage missing and spine cracked throughout. Second front endpaper has previous owner's inked name, blindstamp, and ink stamp dated 1918. From the collection of former Smithsonian curator Mendel Peterson, with his bookplate to front pastedown. A fascinating first-person account of the worst maritime disaster in US history. (steamboat, sailing, mississippi, civil war, naval disaster) Inquire if you need further information.
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