The Sultana: The Forgotten Story of America's Deadliest Maritime Disaster (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798188250775)

April 1865. The war is over. Two thousand men are finally going home - on a boat licensed to carry 376.

In the last days of April 1865, the Civil War was over, Lincoln was dead, and thousands of Union soldiers just released from Confederate prison camps crowded aboard a Mississippi steamboat at Vicksburg. Seven miles above Memphis, at two o'clock in the morning, her patched boiler tore the night apart.

The Sultana remains the deadliest maritime disaster in American history - and almost no one has heard of it. Inside you'll find:

• The bribery scheme on the Vicksburg waterfront that packed the boat six times past her legal limit


• The boiler repair that should never have left the dock


• The men who survived Andersonville and Cahaba, only to face a flooded river in the dark


• The city that raced out to save them - and the investigations that held no one accountable


• What remains today: the wreck beneath an Arkansas soybean field and the museum keeping the memory alive

Drawn from survivor accounts, official records, and modern scholarship, The Sultana restores to memory the night America chose to forget. Read it, and you will never forget it again

Author: Nathan W. Cole
ISBN-13: 9798188250775
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 07/20/2026
Pages: 76
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.23lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.20d