Loss Of The Sultana And Reminiscences Of Survivors. History Of A Disaster Where Over One Thousand Five Hundred Human Beings Were Lost, Most Of Them Being Exchanged Prisoners Of War On Their Way Home After Privation And Suffering From One To Twenty-Three Months In Cahaba And Andersonville Prisons

REV CHESTER D. BERRY

Publication: Darius D Thorp, Printer and Binder, 1892, Lansing, Michigan

First edition. 12mo. Original cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the front cover and spine, 426 pp., frontispiece, introduction, illustrated, portraits. A collection of first-hand accounts by those who lived to tell the story of perhaps the worst maritime disaster in U.S. history. On the Mississippi River just above Memphis at two o'clock on the morning of April 27, 1865, the steamboat Sultana, carrying over 2,400 passengers (it was licensed to carry only 356), exploded and sank. Over 1,700 people perished. Most of the passengers were Union soldiers recently released from Confederate prisons. A listing of those on board is provided with the majority being from Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee, and Virginia. Former owner's inked name and date on the front free fly leaf, light wear to the spine ends, else a near fine, tight copy. A rare book in the first edition.

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