Indiana And The Sultana Disaster

Author : Robert R. Smith
Publisher : First Edition Design Pub.
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781506902661

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Indiana and the Sultana Disaster by Robert R. Smith Pdf

This book follows the life of John. H. King from 1831 until his death in 1893. Although John was a survivor, he lived a problem plagued and pathetic existence that make the fascinating events of his life an unusual and emotional story. It is the story of a man whom fate chose to survive when others did not. The book follows John from his birth in Cincinnati, Ohio, his training as a blacksmith, his migration to Indiana, his enlistment in the 9th Indiana Cavalry his survival of the tragedies that await him From skirmishes and capture by the Rebs, his life threatening imprisonment at Andersonville prison and his survival of the greatest maritime disaster in the history of the United States he returns home a changed and disabled man, unable to live what could have been a far different life. Keywords: Sultana, War, Civil War, Indiana, Soldier, Boat, History, Historical, Biography, Fight

Author : Robert R. Smith (Retired broadcaster)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Prisoners of war
ISBN : 1939550246

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Indiana and the Sultana Disaster by Robert R. Smith (Retired broadcaster) Pdf

This book follows the life of John H. King from 1831 until his death in 1893. Although John was a survivor, he lived a problem plagued and pathetic existence that make the fascinating events of his life an unusual and emotional story.It is the story of a man whom fate chose to survive when others did not. The book follows John from his birth in Cincinnati, Ohio, his training as a blacksmith, his migration to Indiana, his enlistment in the 9th Indiana Cavalry his survival of the tragedies that await him.From his skirmishes and capture by the Rebs, his life threatening imprisonment at Andersonville prison and his survival of the greatest maritime disaster in the history of the United States he returns home a changed and disabled man, unable to live what could have been a far different life.

Author : Jerry O. Potter
Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1992-02-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781455612666

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SULTANA TRAGEDY, THE by Jerry O. Potter Pdf

Lee Surrenders! "President Murdered!" "Booth Killed!" screamed the headlines of American newspapers in April 1865, leaving little room for mention of a maritime disaster that to this day is America's worst. On April 27, 1865, the Sultana, a 260-foot, wooden-hulled steamboat-smaller than the Titanic but carrying more passengers-exploded on the Mississippi River near Memphis, Tennessee. More than 1,800 men, mostly Union soldiers on their way home from Confederate prison camps, died. On board were over 2,400 passengers-six times the ship's legal capacity. Although jubilant about the war's end, most of the men were weakened by malnutrition and disease from their imprisonment at Andersonville and Cahaba. Hundreds who were not killed in the explosion drowned in the cold, swift waters of the muddy river. Because of the timing of the sinking, coverage of the Sultana's demise was scant, and the tragedy has passed almost unnoticed in the pages of American history. In this highly documented book, author Jerry Potter focuses on how greed, indifference, gross stupidity, and criminal misconduct reaching as far as the White House led to the overloading of the Sultana at Vicksburg. Such irresponsible conduct characterized the actions of President Lincoln, an entire chain of army command, and several profit-hungry civilians. This authoritative work contains abundant photographs and illustrations, as well as the most complete list of the ship's passengers available.

Author : Chester D. Berry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Steamboat disasters
ISBN : UOM:39015021968394

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Loss of the Sultana and Reminiscences of Survivors by Chester D. Berry Pdf

Author : Gene E Salecker
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781682477441

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Destruction of the Steamboat Sultana by Gene E Salecker Pdf

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. Gene Eric Salecker covers this disaster in detail and dispels the many myths that have been connected to the Sultana for too long. Almost every author who has written about the Sultana has relied on the words of a few survivors or referred to the works of previous authors to get their story. Advancing the scholarship, the author has visited the National Archives in Washington, DC, to comb through the handwritten transcripts of the three investigative bodies that looked into the disaster or poured over the handwritten testimony from the court-martial trial of Capt. Frederic Speed, the only person tried for the overcrowding of the vessel. In 1996, after extensive research and using the most current sources available at that time, Salecker wrote Disaster on the Mississippi: The Sultana Explosion, April 27, 1865. Still, there were inevitable omissions. After almost twenty-five years of continued research on the Sultana, and all those involved in the disaster, Salecker has gleaned unparalleled knowledge into every aspect of the disaster. His research, covering the National Archives, and thousands of pages of newspapers from around the world and government documents, including pension records and service records, has allowed Gene to tell the story of the Sultana as completely as possible. By bringing his research back to primary sources, Salecker dispels myths and adds to the story of the Sultana. In Destruction of the Steamboat Sultana: The Worst Maritime Disaster in American History paroled prisoners, civilian passengers, guards, crew members, rescuers, and eyewitnesses tell their stories in their own words. The true, and complete, story about the Sultana and the disaster has finally, and fully, been told.

Author : Alan Huffman
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780061971235

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Sultana by Alan Huffman Pdf

“One of the most riveting war stories I have ever read….Huffman’s smooth, intimate prose ushers you through this nightmare as if you were living it yourself.” —Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm The dramatic true story of the worst maritime disaster in U.S. history, Alan Huffman’s Sultana brings to breathtaking life a tragic, long forgotten event in America’s Civil War—the sinking of the steamship Sultana and the loss of 1,700 lives, mostly Union soldiers returning home from Confederate prison camps. A gripping account that reads like a nonfiction Cold Mountain, Sultana is powerful, moving, rich in irony and fascinating historical detail—a story no history aficionado or Civil War buff will want to miss.

Author : Indiana Historical Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Indiana
ISBN : UOM:39015013397727

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Indiana Historical Society Publications by Indiana Historical Society Pdf

Vol. 1, t.-p. dated 1897, includes the Society's proceedings and all papers and publications from its organization in 1830 to 1886. Each succeeding volume made up from papers originally issued separately. Vol. 6, no. 4 contains minutes of the society, 1886-1918.

Author : Sally M. Walker
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780763697631

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Sinking the Sultana by Sally M. Walker Pdf

The worst maritime disaster in American history wasn’t the Titanic. It was the steamboat Sultana on the Mississippi River — and it was completely preventable. In 1865, the Civil War was winding down and the country was reeling from Lincoln’s assassination. Thousands of Union soldiers, released from Confederate prisoner-of-war camps, were to be transported home on the steamboat Sultana. With a profit to be made, the captain rushed repairs to the ship so the soldiers wouldn’t find transportation elsewhere. More than 2,000 passengers boarded in Vicksburg, Mississippi . . . on a boat with a capacity of 376. The journey was violently interrupted when the ship’s boilers exploded, plunging the Sultana into mayhem; passengers were bombarded with red-hot iron fragments, burned by scalding steam, and flung overboard into the churning Mississippi. Although rescue efforts were launched, the survival rate was dismal — more than 1,500 lives were lost. In a compelling, exhaustively researched account, renowned author Sally M. Walker joins the ranks of historians who have been asking the same question for 150 years: who (or what) was responsible for the Sultana’s disastrous fate?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Indiana
ISBN : IND:30000117796825

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Indiana Military History Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Daniel Webster Comstock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Indiana
ISBN : HARVARD:HX2NF4

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Ninth Cavalry by Daniel Webster Comstock Pdf

Author : Charles C. Briant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : United States
ISBN : UCAL:$B310539

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History of the Sixth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry by Charles C. Briant Pdf

Author : Gene E Salecker
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612517735

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Disaster on the Mississippi by Gene E Salecker Pdf

At two o’clock in the morning on 27 April 1865, seven miles north of Memphis on the Mississippi, the sidewheel steamboat Sultana’s boilers suddenly exploded. Legally registered to carry 376 people, the boat was packed with 2,100 recently released Union prisoners-of-war. Over 1,700 people died, making it the worst marine disaster in U.S. history. This book looks at the disaster through the eyes of the victims themselves. It offers a concise, minute-by-minute account on the cause of the explosion and its effect on different parts of the boat. To focus on the personal stories of the victims, both civilian and soldier, Gene Eric Salecker patiently collected material from hundreds of letters, period newspaper stories, and other sources. Readers are first introduced to victims while they are languishing in Confederate prisons and follow their release to an exchange camp outside of Vicksburg to their eventual crowding onto the Sultana. His knowledgeable narrative is interwoven with individual reminiscences, including those of the heroic rescuers. He offers unprecedented details about the captain’s handling of the steamboat and corrects some long-held myths about the placement of the soldiers on the Sultana and newspaper coverage of the disaster. A large portion of the book covers rescue attempts, both successful and failed, and the aftermath of the disaster as it affected those involved. With its emphasis on the human-interest aspect of the Sultana, this book brings to the literature a critical point of view and much new information.

Author : Thomas Sydenham Cogley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : United States
ISBN : HARVARD:HX2NF5

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History of the Seventh Indiana Cavalry Volunteers by Thomas Sydenham Cogley Pdf

Author : Rex T. Jackson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0788423584

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The Sultana Saga by Rex T. Jackson Pdf

On a cold night in late April 1865, on the mighty Mississippi River just north of Memphis, Tennessee, scores of unsuspecting souls suddenly found themselves desperately struggling for their lives after the boilers exploded on the riverboat steamer Sultana. Although more lives were lost in this incident than would be lost on the Titanic in 1912, these homeward bound veterans of war have been nearly forgotten by the country they served so bravely. The author rectifies this oversight with his book-length treatment of the tragedy. Most of the men served in cavalry or infantry units from Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, and Ohio, or cavalry units from Tennessee and Virginia. J2358HB - $18.00

Author : Frank Bury Woodford
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0814328164

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Father Abraham's Children by Frank Bury Woodford Pdf

Father Abraham's Children was first published in 1961, the eve of the 100th anniversary of the Civil War. This volume is a collection of anecdotes and legends, a retelling of stories and reminiscences culled from a wide variety of written sources and from personal interviews with Civil War veterans. Among the episodes recounted with a wealth of colorful detail are: Michigan's participation in the Underground Railroad; the strange tale of Sarah Emma Edmonds, alias Private Franklin Thompson; the ill-fated strategy that led to the slaughter at the Crater; an odyssey of escape from Danville and from Libby Prison; the bizarre plot of the Confederates to capture a Federal sloop-of-war on Lake Erie; the Michigan Cavalry Brigade's exploits under the picturesque George Custer; the chance encounter with a Michigan soldier that brought death to the gallant Jeb Stuart; impressions and description of camp life and the ordinary routine of a soldier from the diary of Private Frank Lane; the disaster of the First Michigan at Bull Run; the story of Michigan's medical services and the origin of Harper Hospital; the Detroit Riot of 1863; and the nightmare explosion of the steamer Sultana with a death toll of over 1,200 soldiers on their way home from Confederate prisons.