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Sinking the Sultana: A Civil War Story of Imprisonment, Greed, and a Doomed Journey Home

Sally M. Walker

This account centers on the steamboat Sultana as it travels up the Mississippi River in April 1865, during the closing months of the Civil War. More than 2,000 people are aboard, most of them Union soldiers newly released from Confederate prison camps and heading north to leave military service. The book presents the Sultana disaster as the worst maritime catastrophe in United States history, exploring why it could have been prevented amid a nation shaken by Lincoln’s assassination.

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Themes
Government And Civics · History · Transportation · War And Conflict
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Published
October 10, 2017
ISBN-13
9780763677558
Language
English
Cooperative Children's Book Center, University of Wisconsin–MadisonCCBC Choices
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