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SULTANA DISASTER, 27 APR 1865

A Working Bibliography of MHI Sources

CONTENTS General Sources.....p.1 Personal Memoirs….p.2

GENERAL SOURCES

Bryant, William O. Cahaba Prison and the Sultana Disaster. Tuscaloosa, AL: U AL, 1990. 180 p. E612C2B77.

Cogley, Thomas S. History of the Seventh Indiana Cavalry Volunteers with an Account of the Burning of the Steamer Sultana on the Mississippi River... Laporte, IN: Herald, l876. 272 p. E506.6.7th.C64. See pp. l83-87 for a lithograph of the Sultana, a brief account of the explosion, and partial list of unit losses.

Elliot, James W. Transport to Disaster. New York: Holt, Rinehart, Winston, l962. 247 p. E595S84E45.

Funk, Arville. "Hoosiers at the Sultana Disaster." Indiana Journal of Military History (Oct 1985): pp. 20-23. Per.

Foote, Shelby L. The Civil War, A Narrative. Vol. 3: Red River to Appomattox. NY: Random House, 1974. pp. 1026-27. E468F7v3.

Hawes, Jesse. Cahaba: A Story of Captive Boys in Blue. NY: Burr, 1888. 480 p. E612C2H3. Pages 163-99 contain first-person account of the disaster, including conditions aboard the vessel and rescue efforts.

Jackson, Rex T. The Sultana Saga: The Titanic of the Mississippi. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 2003. 135 p. E595S84J33.

Levstik, Frank R. "The Sultana Disaster." CW Times Illustrated (Jan 1974): 18-25. Per.

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Potter, Jerry. "The Sultana Disaster: Conspiracy of Greed." Blue & Gray (Aug 90): 8-24 & 54-59. Per.

_____. The Sultana Tragedy: America's Greatest Maritime Disaster. Gretna, LA: Pelican, 1992. 300 p. E595S84P68.

Rule, D. H. “Sultana: A Case for Sabotage.” North & South (Dec 2001): pp. 76-87. Per.

Salecker, Gene E. “The Crippling of the Sultana.” Blue & Gray Magazine (Aug 1995): pp. 24-30. Per.

_____. Disaster on the Mississippi: The Sultana Explosion, April 27, 1865. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute, 1996. 346 p. E595S84S25.

_____. “The Tragic Sinking of Sultana.” America’s CW (May 2002): pp. 26-33. Per.

U.S. Naval History Division. Civil War Naval Chronology, l86l-l865. Wash, DC: GPO, 1971. p. V-94. E59lU568.

U.S. War Department. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Ser I, Vol. 48. Wash, DC: GPO, l896. E464U6serlv48. See Part l, pp. 210-226 and Part 2, pp. 233, 242, 247 and 440 for official reports and scattered mention of the explosion in official correspondence.

_____. Ser III, Vol. 8. Washington, DC: GPO, 1890. E464U6ser3v8. See pp. 521-22 & 539-40 for scattered reference to the disaster in official correspondence.

PERSONAL MEMOIRS

Comstock, Daniel W. Ninth Cavalry, One Hundred and Twenty-first Regiment, Indiana Volunteers. Richmond, IN: J M Coe, 1890. 56 p. E506.6.9th.C65. See pp. 50-56 for coverage of the "Wreck of the Sultana" including statements members of the regiment who survived the explosion and a partial list of those who perished.

Dickson, William F. "Aboard the Sultana." CW Times Illustrated (Feb 1974); pp. 38-39. Per. Memoir of Lieutenant, Company A, 10th Indiana Cavalry, recently released from Andersonville Prison.

Dyer, Gustavus W., and Moore, John T., comps. The Tennessee Civil War Veterans Questionnaires. Vol. l. Easley, SC: Southern Hist Pr, l985. E467T46.1985vl. Pp.143-55 includes a questionnaire response from James T. Wolverton (6th Tennessee Cavalry) who survived the explosion, transcripts of correspondence from other survivors, and articles about a l9l9 reunion of survivors near Knoxville, Tennessee.

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Hobart, Edwin L. Semi-History of a Boy-Veteran of the Twenty-Eighth Regiment Illinois Infantry Volunteers, in a Black Regiment; A Diary of 28th Ill. From Organization to Veteranizing; History of the Fifty-Eighth Regiment, U.S. Colored Infantry, with Some Closing Reminiscences with the Former, and a Rounding Out of My Long Service with the Latter Regiment; Some Startling Incidents of the Great Civil War Not Heretofore Found in Histories ...Sultana Disaster; Explosion of Marshall's Warehouse at Mobile, Ala... Denver, CO?: n.p., 1909. 41 p. E505.5.28th.H632.

Homer, Jacob. “Every Fellow for Himself.” CW Times Illustrated (Mar 2002): pp. 22-23 & 68-72. Per. Survivor from A/102nd Ohio Infantry Regiment.

Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. Nebraska Commandery. Civil War Sketches and Incidents: Papers Read by Companions of the... Omaha, NE: By the Commandery, 1902. E464C585.l902. See pp. 253-57 for "Explosion of the Sultana" by William H. C. Michael, U.S. Navy.