Bibliography of materials on the Sultana Disaster (April 27, 1865)

Published Collection:

Berry, Chester D. Loss of the Sultana and Reminiscences of Survivors. Lansing: Darius D. Thorp, 1892.

Bryant, William O. Cahaba Prison and the Sultana Disaster. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1990.

Cogley, Thomas S. History of the Seventh Indiana Cavalry Volunteers. Laporte: Herald Company, 1876. (p.184-187)

Elliott, James W. Transport to Disaster. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962.

Hobart, Edwin L. Semi-history of a boy-veteran of the Twenty-Eighth Regiment Illinois Infantry Volunteers, in a Black Regiment. Denver?: 1909. (P.34-39)

Jackson, Rex T. The Sultana Saga: The Titanic of the Mississippi. Bowie: Heritage Books, Inc., 2003.

Larson, Cedric A. "Death on the Dark River." American Heritage, October 1955, 48-51.

Potter, Jerry O. . The Sultana Tragedy: America's Greatest Maritime Disaster. Gretna: Pelican Publishing Company, 1992.

Robertson, James. The Untold Civil War: Exploring the Human Side of War. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 2011. (p.324-325)

Manuscripts:

List, April 1965 (should be 1865?) SC 1571 Summary: List of officer from the 11th and 14th Illinois Cavalry, the 2nd Ohio Cavalry and the 3rd U.S. Colored Cavalry who contributed to the survivors of the Sultana steamboat disaster and the amount they contributed.

Letter : Memphis, Tenn., to [his] parents, 186[5] April 30. SC 729 Summary: Account of the sinking of the steamboat Sultana and subsequent rescue operation.

Letters, January 8, 1864-August 13, 1865. SC 3253

Summary: Letters to Turner's wife, Sarah, contain news of friends and family as well as information about Turner's service on a military commission in Memphis, Tennessee, until the end of February 1865; the battle at Spanish Fort, Alabama; and garrison duty at Montgomery, Alabama.

Created by Jenny Sawyer, February 2013