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Sto caricando le informazioni... Loss of the Sultana and Reminiscences of Survivors (Voices Of The Civil War)di Chester D. Berry
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. An excellent primary source on this subject. ( ) Not one that many would enjoy, but fits my genre of 'untold' stories of vast proportion. RW and I read article in Michigan History Magazine about Chester D. Berry and his story of the explosion of the Sultana in 1865. Somewhere in my stacks is the book I chased down from the 90's - "Disaster on the Mississippi" - Salecker, but not yet read. Forward by David Madden, nearly rants about this being the worst maritime disaster in the U.S. and among the top events of U.S. fatalities - yet ignored, ignored, ignored. Books written haven't raised it to consciousness yet. At this point, it's "history" as they say - at that point it was poor communications, end of long Civil War, just days after Lincoln's assassination. Reprint of the 1892 reminiscences collected by Berry. Most are repetitive, but maybe that's much the point - it was horrendous for so many. Read the suggested ones aloud with RW, then read thru ALL of them. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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It was the worst maritime disaster in American history. It claimed more lives in one night than "Titanic" did 47 years later. Yet, not only do few Americans know about the destruction of the "Sultana," we still don't know for certain why she exploded.Carrying as many as 2,400 passengers on a steamboat certified for 376, most of them were recently-released Union prisoners of war from Confederate prisons. They were emaciated, sick, and wounded. They were going home after years away--homes and families that 1,800 of them would never reach.Men, women, and children were all packed onto "Sultana" as she left the dock at Vicksburg on the Mississippi on April 24, 1865. In the middle of a dark night, a boiler exploded and thousands were cast into the icy river.The questions remain: what happened? Who was at fault? Why was no one ever punished?Together with scores of survivor accounts, this book has the official reports about the disaster. It makes for compelling and horrifying reading.Every memoir of the American Civil War provides us with another view of the catastrophe that changed the country forever.Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)973.771History and Geography North America United States Administration of Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865 Civil War Prisons, hospitals, charities, etc. Southern prisons, prison lifeClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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