Disaster on the Mississippi: The Sultana Explosion, April 27, 1865
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| Rating | : | 4.80 (658 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1612517749 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 376 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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He is married and lives in the Chicago area with his wife and pets. Gene Eric Salecker is a retired university police officer and middle school social studies teacher, currently working as an author, substitute teacher, and consultant for the Sultana Disaster Museum in Marion, Arkansas.
history. It offers a concise, minute-by-minute account on the cause of the explosion and its effect on different parts of the boat.To focus on the personal stories of the victims, both civilian and soldier, Gene Eric Salecker patiently collected material from hundreds of letters, period newspaper stories, and other sources. He offers unprecedented details about the captain’s handling of the steamboat and corrects some long-held myths about the placement of the soldiers on the Sultana and newspaper coverage of the disaster.A large portion of the book covers rescue attempts, both successful and failed, and the aftermath of the disaster as it affected those involved. This book looks at the disaster through the eyes of the victims themselves. At two o’clock in the morning on 27 April 1865, seven mi
He is married and lives in the Chicago area with his wife and pets. . About the Author Gene Eric Salecker is a retired university police officer and middle school social studies teacher, currently working as an author, substitute teacher, and consultant for the Sultana Disaster Museum in Marion, Arkansas
Brian D. Rubendall said Recounting a forgotten disaster. The sinking of the steamboat Sultana was the deadliest maritime disaster in U.S. History. Strangely, even though it occurred at the end of the Civil War and most of the dead were returning Union POWs, it is an almost forgotten event. Author Salecker recalls the bureaucratic bungling and corruption that helped lead to the diaster as well as a harrowing account from the survivors. This is a good history book that sheds light on the memories of the dead and the survivors.. Excellent - MUST reading for all history buffs. A Customer Very well researched and composed. One feels as if they are right there with the soldiers and civilians as they struggle for survival not only from the flames that are engulfing them, but from the mass of humanity that is in the frigid waters of the swollen Mississippi.Very vivid accounts of suffering with physical and mental challanges in a time when the soldiers should be almost at their happiest moment - going home.. "so the story reads easily. Beyond that" according to Bob Craft. This is an extraordinary book about one of many little known events during the American Civil War. First it is well written, so the story reads easily. Beyond that, the event it portrays is emotionally powerful. Well over a thousand Union soldiers who are being returned home at government expense from Confederate prison camps are transported on a grossly overladen riverboat whose boiler needs significant repair. North of Memphis, TN the boiler explodes in the middle of the night killing many outright and pitching others into the spring-melt flooded Mississippi River to drown. As usual, the caus