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Sultana: Surviving the Civil War, Prison, and the Worst Maritime Disaster in American History, by Alan Huffman, a Hardcover from Smithsonian, an imprint of . Browse Inside Sultana: Surviving the Civil War, Prison, and the Worst Maritime Disaster in American History, by Alan Huffman, a Hardcover from Smithsonian, an imprint . Sultana: Surviving the Civil War, Prison, and the Worst Maritime Disaster in American History von Huffman, Alan bei AbeBooks.de - ISBN 10: 0061470546 - ISBN 13: . 

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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. Journalist Huffman (Mississippi in Africa) doesn’t even get aboard the Sultana until the last third of the saga. Before that, he fills in the backstories of four Yankee survivors as they fight in the battle of Chickamauga, go raiding with Sherman’s cavalry and finally get captured and sent to the infamous Southern prison camps at Andersonville, Ga., and Cahaba, Ala. There they endure the torments of starvation, exposure, festering and maggoty (more…)

Browse Inside Sultana: Surviving the Civil War, Prison, and the Worst Maritime Disaster in American History, by Alan Huffman, a Hardcover from Smithsonian, an imprint of . Sultana: Surviving the Civil War, Prison, and the Worst Maritime Disaster in American History, by Alan Huffman, a Hardcover from Smithsonian, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Sultana / Surviving the Civil War, Prison, and the Worst Maritime Disaster in American History Huffman, Alan Hardcover - $ 17.54 More Information.