Sultana: Surviving the Civil War, Prison, and the Worst Maritime Disaster in American History
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| Rating | : | 4.45 (849 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0061470546 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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Christopher Moss said Thoourgh look at the war, the camps and the tragedy. Nonfiction. I have read almost every book on the Sultana on Amazon in preparation for my own novel. This book is a lot more than the story of the Sultana. It follows a number of soldiers through their experiences of the war and prison camp through the Sultana tragedy and after. It is expertly resached and written. Probably the single best of the books.. "Great detail that reveals an amazing event that is lost" according to Amazon Customer. Great detail that reveals an amazing event that is lost in the telling the last days of the Civil War.. Good book. Amazon Customer Still reading it!! Just what I was looking for!!
. (Apr.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. From Publishers Weekly The explosion and wreck of the Mississippi riverboat Sultana in 1865, which killed 1,700 passengers, mostly Union soldiers recently released from Confederate POW camps, is but the capstone of this engrossing survey of the many varieties of suffering in the Civil War. Making skillful use of war diaries and memoirs, the author makes these quieter ordeals just as moving as the Sultana's doomed voyage, with its hellish scenes of hundreds of screaming people being burned alive or drowning each other in panic. There they endure the torments of starvation, exposure, festering and maggoty wounds, predatory criminal gangs, lice and diarrhea—a scourge, Huffman notes, that was far deadlier to soldiers than bullets. Huffman fits the climactic disaster into a meticulously researched, ha
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.. 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. “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.”—Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm The dramatic true story of the worst maritime disaster in U.S