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Sinking the Sultana

A Civil War Story of Imprisonment, Greed, and a Doomed Journey Home

by Sally M. Walker
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The worst maritime disaster in American history wasn't the Titanic. It was the steamboat Sultana on the Mississippi River — and it was completely preventable.
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 ship 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 ship'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?

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Kindle Book

  • Release date: October 10, 2017

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  • ISBN: 9780763697631
  • File size: 44396 KB
  • Release date: October 10, 2017

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  • ISBN: 9780763697631
  • File size: 44396 KB
  • Release date: October 10, 2017
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History Juvenile Nonfiction Science Transportation

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English

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ATOS Level:7.7
Lexile® Measure:1090
Interest Level:6-12(MG+)
Text Difficulty:6-9

The worst maritime disaster in American history wasn't the Titanic. It was the steamboat Sultana on the Mississippi River — and it was completely preventable.
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 ship 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 ship'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?

History Juvenile Nonfiction Science Transportation

  • Publisher:
    Candlewick Press

    Kindle Book
    Release date: October 10, 2017

    OverDrive Read
    ISBN: 9780763697631
    File size: 44396 KB
    Release date: October 10, 2017

    EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9780763697631
    File size: 44396 KB
    Release date: October 10, 2017

  • Kindle Book
    OverDrive Read
    EPUB ebook
  • English
  • ATOS Level: 7.7
    Lexile® Measure: 1090
    Interest Level: 6-12(MG+)
    Text Difficulty: 6-9
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