Sultana: Surviving the Civil War, Prison, and the Worst Maritime Disaster in American HistoryHarper Collins, 2009 M03 24 - 300 pages “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.”
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. |
Contents
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THE RAIDS | 49 |
SOMEWHERE THE LITTLE BROTHER | 77 |
CAPTURED | 81 |
CAHABA | 107 |
ANDERSONVILLE | 127 |
GOING OFF ALONE | 145 |
ΙΟ RELEASE | 155 |
THE DISASTER | 191 |
IN A DEAD MANS POCKET | 227 |
HOME | 241 |
AFTERWORD | 271 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 285 |
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