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The worst maritime disaster in American history wasnt the Titanic It was the steamboat Sultana on the Mississippi River and it could have been preventedIn 1865 the Civil War was winding down and the country was reeling from Lincolns assassination Thousands of Union soldiers released from Confederate prisonerofwar 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 wouldnt find transportation elsewhere More than 2000 passengers boarded in Vicksburg Mississippi on a boat with a capacity of 376 The journey was violently interrupted when the boats boilers exploded plunging the Sultana into mayhem passengers were bombarded with redhot 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 1500 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 Sultanas disastrous fate
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One of the most riveting war stories I have ever readHuffmans smooth intimate prose ushers you through this nightmare as if you were living it yourselfSebastian Junger author of The Perfect StormnbspThe dramatic true story of the worst maritime disaster in US history Alan Huffmans Sultana brings to breathtaking life a tragic long forgotten event in Americas Civil Warthe sinking of the steamship Sultana and the loss of 1700 lives mostly Union soldiers returning home from Confederate prison camps A gripping account that reads like a nonfiction Cold Mountain Sultana is powerful moving rich in irony and fascinating historical detaila story no history aficionado or Civil War buff will want to miss
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Originally published in 1892 Loss of the Sultana and Reminiscences of Survivorsis a collection of firsthand accounts by those who lived to tell the story of perhapsthe worst maritime disaster in US historyOn the Mississippi River just above Memphis at two oclock on the morning of April27 1865 the steamboat Sultana carrying over 2400 passengers it was licensed to carry only 356 exploded and sank Over 1700 people perishedMost of the passengers were Union soldiers recently released from Confederateprisons Many were from East Tennessee They had boarded at Vicksburg where thelongest siege of the war had finally ended in Confederate surrender ending theVicksburg campaignThe soldiers homeward bound from Andersonville and Cahaba Confederate prisonshad survived the terrors of battle the loss of close comrades physical and psychological wounds the risky confinement of hospital the humiliation of capture andsurrender escape and recapture homesickness boredom the daily threat of death bystarvation disease suicide robbery injury or death by raidersChester D Berryone of the survivorscompiled facts records and personalaccounts of other survivors resulting in this compelling and profound testimony to thehuman spirit in the face of tragedy
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This is the story of the littleknown prisonerofwar camp on the banks of the Alabama River near Selma where 5000 Union soldiers were interned during the latter part of the Civil War After surviving imprisonment and a forced march overland to the Mississippi River they were to die in the worst accident of its type in US history when the Sultana steamship exploded in midriver while transporting them back to their homes in the North
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This is the story of the littleknown prisonerofwar camp on the banks of the Alabama River near Selma where 5000 Union soldiers were interned during the latter part of the Civil War After surviving imprisonment and a forced march overland to the Mississippi River they were to die in the worst accident of its type in US history when the Sultana steamship exploded in midriver while transporting them back to their homes in the North
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Recounts events surrounding the mysterious sinking of the Confederate submarine the HL Hunley and its recent recovery from deep in the waters off the coast of South Carolina Simultaneous
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For famous onearmed war correspondent Paddy Quinn this is to be his final Civil War assignment the funeral of the assassinated President Lincoln Quinn and his new bride Felice are aboard the steamboat Sultana going up the springflooded Mississippi River toward Illinois to meet the Funeral Train when their honeymoon vessel stops at Vicksburg and takes on a pathetic human cargo of 2000 sick and ragged survivors of the hellish Andersonville prisonerofwar camp kept alive only by their desire to get home Quinns lot is now thrown in with some of the unluckiest veterans of that awful war While he is interviewing them about life in the notorious prison the Sultana carrying five times its lawful number of passengers explodes after midnight Quinn is blown overboard with the emaciated veteran Robb Macombie and in the worst night of his life proves himself a better man than he had ever imagined he could be In this narrative of Americas worst maritime disaster the deepest undercurrent is the spirit of the martyred President whom Quinn and Macombie have vowed to honor by attending his funeral even if it kills them
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Right to knowWhile a senior civil servant at the Ministry of Defence MoD Clive Ponting sent two documents to Labour MP Tam Dalyell in July 1984 concerning the sinking of an Argentine navy warship General Belgrano a key incident in the Falklands War of 1982 The documents revealed that the General Belgrano had been sighted a day earlier than officially reported and was steaming away from the Royal Navy taskforce and was outside the exclusion zone when the cruiser was attacked and sunk The Ponting case was seen as a landmark in British legal history raising serious questions about the validity of the 1911 Official Secrets Act and the publics right to know Shortly after his resignation on 16 February 1985 The Observer began to serialize Pontings book The Right to Know the inside story of the Belgrano affair The Conservative government reacted by tightening up UK secrets legislation introducing the Official Secrets Act 1989Before the trial a jury could take the view that if an action could be seen to be in the public interest that might justify the right of the individual to take that actionAs a result of the 1989 modification that defence was removed After this enactment it was taken that public interest is what the government of the day says it is One further fact which influenced Mr Pontings unexpected acquittal was that he submitted the documents to an MP who was in effect upholding the right of Parliament not to be lied to by the government of the day
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It began as President Ulysses S Grants bid for international glory after the Civil WarAmericas first attempt to reach the North Pole It ended with Captain Charles Halls death under suspicious circumstances dissension among sailors scientists and explorers the ships abandonment and eventual sinking Then came a brutal struggle for survival by thirtythree men women and children stranded on the polar iceand two dramatic rescues by whaling ships When news of the disastrous expedition and accusations of murder reached Washington DC it led to a nationwide scandal an official investigation and a government coverup The mystery of the captains death remained unsolved for nearly 100 years But when Charles Halls frozen grave in northern Greenland was opened and hair and fingernail samples were retrieved forensic scientists were finally able to reach a shocking conclusion Now telling the complete story for the first time 1 New York Times bestselling author Bruce Hendersonwhose works have been praised as compelling Los Angeles Times Book Review and compulsively readable San Francisco Examinerhas researched original transcripts of the US Navy inquests personal papers of Captain Hall autopsy and forensic reports relating to the centuryold crime the ships original log personal journals kept by crewmen and herosurvivor George Tysons diary and family papers to bring to life one of the most mysterious tragedies of American arctic exploration
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Tales of sinkings and escapes heroism and death sadism and gallantry icechoked waters and seas on fire are collected and retold by a veteran merchant marine officer The five sections cover the American Revolution the War of 1812 the Civil War World War I and World War II Annotation c by Book News Inc Portland Or
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If you follow the news the 21st century doesnt seem to be going so well From 911 to the Great Recession the Syrian civil war the Ebola epidemic growing inequality racial unrest and bitterly contested elections the world seems to be sinking into chaos and hatred Moralizing commentators tell us that the decline of religious belief and closeknit communities has left us spiritually adrift without a grounding in moral values so its no wonder were suffering through an epidemic of loneliness unhappiness and suicide and then there are the futurologists who speculate on what will finish us off first resource wars nuclear annihilation unstoppable climate change or robots that steal our jobs enslave us and turn us into raw materials But as Steven Pinker argues in this landmark new book we do not truly inhabit a dystopia of deprivation and violence In fact every global measure of human flourishing is on the rise Were living longer healthier safer and more affluent liv
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