Sultana: Surviving the Civil War, Prison, and the Worst Maritime Disaster in American History Dennis Bickers Australia and Germany

Australia and Germany

Author: Mark Jenkins

and biodiversity

Part of The New Art and Science of Teaching series

For Robert Fyall

Sultana: Surviving the Civil War, Prison, and the Worst Maritime Disaster in American History Dennis Bickers Australia and GermanyIn April 1865, the steamboat Sultana slowly moved up the Mississippi River, its overtaxed engines straining under the weight of twenty four hundred passengers mostly Union soldiers, recently paroled from Confederate prison camps. At 2 a. m., three of Sultana's four boilers exploded. Within twenty minutes, the boat went down in flames, and an estimated seventeen hundred lives were lost. The worst maritime disaster in American history, the sinking of