Sinking The Sultana (Hardcover Book)

Sinking The Sultana (Hardcover Book)

USD $24.99 Sally M. Walker [Writer] Published by-Candlewick Press

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About the Sinking The Sultana (Hardcover Book)

The worst maritime disaster in American history wasn’t the Titanic. It was the steamboat Sultana on the Mississippi River — and it could have been prevented.

In 1865, the Civil War was winding down and the country was reeling from Lincoln’s assassination. Thousands of Union soldiers, released from Confederate prisoner-of-war camps, were to be transported home on the steamboat Sultana. With a profit to be made, the captain rushed repairs to the boat so the soldiers wouldn’t find transportation elsewhere. More than 2,000 passengers boarded in Vicksburg, Mississippi . . . on a boat with a capacity of 376. The journey was violently interrupted when the boat’s boilers exploded, plunging the Sultana into mayhem; passengers were bombarded with red-hot iron fragments, burned by scalding steam, and flung overboard into the churning Mississippi. Although rescue efforts were launched, the survival rate was dismal — more than 1,500 lives were lost. In a compelling, exhaustively researched account, renowned author Sally M. Walker joins the ranks of historians who have been asking the same question for 150 years: who (or what) was responsible for the Sultana’s disastrous fate?

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The price of "Sinking The Sultana (Hardcover Book)" at 4 Color Fantasies is USD $24.99.

The publisher of "Sinking The Sultana (Hardcover Book)" is Candlewick Press.

The genres of "Sinking The Sultana (Hardcover Book)" are Juvenile Nonfiction - History - United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877), Juvenile Nonfiction - Science & Nature - Disasters, and Juvenile Nonfiction - Transportation - Boats, Ships & Underwater Craft.

"Sinking The Sultana (Hardcover Book)" falls under the category of Books (Hardcover).

The writer of "Sinking The Sultana (Hardcover Book)" is Sally M. Walker.