Название: Sinking the Sultana: A Civil War Story of Imprisonment, Greed, and a Doomed Journey Home
Автор: Sally M. Walker
Издательство: Candlewick
ISBN: 0763677558
Год: 2017
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 208
Размер: 42,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

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.