<p>U.S. Army Military History Institute Collections Division <br>POW-Civil War <br>950 Soldiers Drive Carlisle Barracks, PA&nbsp;17013-5021 7 Mar 08 </p><p><strong>SULTANA DISASTER, 27 APR 1865 </strong></p><p>A Working Bibliography of MHI Sources </p><p><strong>CONTENTS </strong></p><p>General Sources.....p.1 Personal Memoirs….p.2 </p><p><strong>GENERAL SOURCES </strong></p><p>Bryant, William O.&nbsp;Cahaba Prison and the Sultana Disaster.&nbsp;Tuscaloosa, AL:&nbsp;U AL, 1990.&nbsp;180 p. <br>E612C2B77. </p><p>Cogley, Thomas S.&nbsp;History of the Seventh Indiana Cavalry Volunteers with an Account of the Burning of the Steamer Sultana on the Mississippi River...&nbsp;Laporte, IN: Herald, l876.&nbsp;272 p. E506.6.7th.C64. <br>See pp. l83-87 for a lithograph of the Sultana, a brief account of the explosion, and partial list of unit losses. </p><p>Elliot, James W.&nbsp;Transport to Disaster.&nbsp;New York:&nbsp;Holt, Rinehart, Winston, l962.&nbsp;247 p. <br>E595S84E45. </p><p>Funk, Arville.&nbsp;"Hoosiers at the Sultana Disaster."&nbsp;Indiana Journal of Military History&nbsp;(Oct 1985): pp. 20-23.&nbsp;Per. </p><p>Foote, Shelby L.&nbsp;The Civil War, A Narrative.&nbsp;Vol. 3:&nbsp;Red River to Appomattox.&nbsp;NY: Random House, <br>1974. pp.&nbsp;1026-27. E468F7v3. </p><p>Hawes, Jesse.&nbsp;Cahaba: A&nbsp;Story of Captive Boys in Blue.&nbsp;NY: Burr,&nbsp;1888. 480&nbsp;p. E612C2H3. <br>Pages 163-99 contain first-person account of the disaster, including conditions aboard the vessel and rescue efforts. </p><p>Jackson, Rex T.&nbsp;The Sultana Saga:&nbsp;The Titanic of the Mississippi.&nbsp;Bowie, MD:&nbsp;Heritage Books, 2003. <br>135 p.&nbsp;E595S84J33. </p><p>Levstik, Frank R.&nbsp;"The Sultana Disaster."&nbsp;CW Times Illustrated&nbsp;(Jan 1974): 18-25.&nbsp;Per. </p><p></p><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1"><strong>Sultana Disaster </strong></li><li style="flex:1"><strong>p.2 </strong></li></ul><p></p><p>Potter, Jerry.&nbsp;"The Sultana Disaster:&nbsp;Conspiracy of Greed."&nbsp;Blue &amp; Gray&nbsp;(Aug 90):&nbsp;8-24 &amp; 54-59. <br>Per. </p><p>_____. The&nbsp;Sultana Tragedy:&nbsp;America's Greatest Maritime Disaster.&nbsp;Gretna, LA:&nbsp;Pelican, 1992.&nbsp;300 p. <br>E595S84P68. </p><p>Rule, D. H.&nbsp;“Sultana: A&nbsp;Case for Sabotage.”&nbsp;North &amp; South&nbsp;(Dec 2001):&nbsp;pp. 76-87.&nbsp;Per. Salecker, Gene E.&nbsp;“The Crippling of the Sultana.”&nbsp;Blue &amp; Gray Magazine&nbsp;(Aug 1995):&nbsp;pp. 24-30.&nbsp;Per. _____. Disaster&nbsp;on the Mississippi:&nbsp;The Sultana Explosion, April 27, 1865.&nbsp;Annapolis, MD:&nbsp;Naval <br>Institute, 1996.&nbsp;346 p.&nbsp;E595S84S25. </p><p>_____. “The&nbsp;Tragic Sinking of Sultana.”&nbsp;America’s CW&nbsp;(May 2002):&nbsp;pp. 26-33.&nbsp;Per. U.S. Naval History Division.&nbsp;Civil War Naval Chronology, l86l-l865.&nbsp;Wash, DC:&nbsp;GPO, 1971.&nbsp;p. V-94. <br>E59lU568. </p><p>U.S. War Department.&nbsp;The War of the Rebellion:&nbsp;A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies.&nbsp;Ser I, Vol. 48.&nbsp;Wash, DC:&nbsp;GPO, l896.&nbsp;E464U6serlv48. <br>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. </p><p>_____. Ser&nbsp;III, Vol. 8.&nbsp;Washington, DC:&nbsp;GPO, 1890.&nbsp;E464U6ser3v8. <br>See pp. 521-22 &amp; 539-40 for scattered reference to the disaster in official correspondence. </p><p><strong>PERSONAL MEMOIRS </strong></p><p>Comstock, Daniel W.&nbsp;Ninth Cavalry, One Hundred and Twenty-first Regiment, Indiana Volunteers. <br>Richmond, IN:&nbsp;J M Coe, 1890.&nbsp;56 p.&nbsp;E506.6.9th.C65. <br>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. </p><p>Dickson, William F.&nbsp;"Aboard the Sultana."&nbsp;CW Times Illustrated&nbsp;(Feb 1974);&nbsp;pp. 38-39.&nbsp;Per. <br>Memoir of Lieutenant, Company A, 10<sup style="top: -0.4197em;">th </sup>Indiana Cavalry, recently released from Andersonville Prison. </p><p>Dyer, Gustavus W., and Moore, John T., comps.&nbsp;The Tennessee Civil War Veterans Questionnaires. <br>Vol. l.&nbsp;Easley, SC:&nbsp;Southern Hist Pr, l985.&nbsp;E467T46.1985vl. <br>Pp.143-55 includes a questionnaire response from James T. Wolverton (6<sup style="top: -0.4194em;">th </sup>Tennessee Cavalry) who survived the explosion, transcripts of correspondence from other survivors, and articles about a l9l9 reunion of survivors near Knoxville, Tennessee. </p><p></p><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1"><strong>Sultana Disaster </strong></li><li style="flex:1"><strong>p.3 </strong></li></ul><p></p><p>Hobart, Edwin L.&nbsp;Semi-History of a Boy-Veteran of the Twenty-Eighth Regiment Illinois Infantry <br>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...&nbsp;Denver, CO?: n.p., 1909.&nbsp;41 p.&nbsp;E505.5.28<sup style="top: -0.42em;">th</sup>.H632. </p><p>Homer, Jacob.&nbsp;“Every Fellow for Himself.”&nbsp;CW Times Illustrated&nbsp;(Mar 2002):&nbsp;pp. 22-23 &amp; 68-72. <br>Per. <br>Survivor from A/102<sup style="top: -0.4194em;">nd </sup>Ohio Infantry Regiment. </p><p>Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. Nebraska Commandery.&nbsp;Civil War Sketches and Incidents:&nbsp;Papers Read by Companions of the...&nbsp;Omaha, NE:&nbsp;By the Commandery, 1902. E464C585.l902. <br>See pp. 253-57 for "Explosion of the Sultana" by William H. C. Michael, U.S. Navy. </p>