CAHABA PRISON AND SULTANA DISASTER By William O. Bryant *Excellent Condition*
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780817311339
- Book Title
- Cahaba Prison and the Sultana Disaster
- Book Series
- Library of Alabama Classics Ser.
- Publisher
- University of Alabama Press
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.5 in
- Features
- Reprint
- Genre
- Social Science, History
- Topic
- United States / State & Local / General, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Penology
- Item Weight
- 6.1 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 190 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Alabama Press
ISBN-10
0817311335
ISBN-13
9780817311339
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1916303
Product Key Features
Book Title
Cahaba Prison and the Sultana Disaster
Number of Pages
190 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2018
Topic
United States / State & Local / General, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Penology
Features
Reprint
Genre
Social Science, History
Book Series
Library of Alabama Classics Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
6.1 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
"This book . . . should be part of the library of any serious student of the American Civil War." Blue & Gray Magazine, "This book . . . should be part of the library of any serious student of the American Civil War." Blue Gray Magazine, "This book . . . should be part of the library of any serious student of the American Civil War." - Blue & Gray Magazine, "Bryant deftly links the Cahabaand Sultana stories, bases his work on a variety of published andunpublished sources, and reminds us that war's legacy often derives fromother than the drums and trumpets of the battlefield." Journal of American History, "This book . . . should be part of the library of any serious student of the American Civil War." -- Blue Gray Magazine, "Bryant deftly links the Cahaba and Sultana stories, bases his work on a variety of published and unpublished sources, and reminds us that war's legacy often derives from other than the drums and trumpets of the battlefield." -- Journal of American History, "Bryant deftly links the Cahaba and Sultana stories, bases his work on a variety of published and unpublished sources, and reminds us that war's legacy often derives from other than the drums and trumpets of the battlefield." Journal of American History, "Bryant deftly links the Cahaba and Sultana stories, bases his work on a variety of published and unpublished sources, and reminds us that war's legacy often derives from other than the drums and trumpets of the battlefield." - Journal of American History, "This book . . . should be part of the library of any serious student of the American Civil War." -- Blue & Gray Magazine
Edition Description
Reprint
Synopsis
With a death rate of 5 percent, Alabama's Cahaba Federal Prison boasted a better survival rate than the notorious Confederate prisoner-of-war camps of Andersonville, Libby Prison, Elmira, Rock Island, Johnson's Island, and Camp Douglas. Yet it was a ghastly facility, a hastily converted agricultural warehouse so overcrowded that each man barely had space to lie down to sleep. At the war's conclusion in 1865, however, in a harrowing reversal of the inmates' fates, captured Union soldiers were sent on a grueling overland march to the Mississippi River. Held there in camps at Vicksburg along with other prisoners of war, the soldiers embarked on the steamship Sultana for transportation north. Traveling first to New Orleans and then heading north, the vessel held by some estimates six times more passengers than its safe limit, many of them ill, injured, or malnourished. The flow of the swollen Mississippi that April was wide, swift, and cold, and the Sultana struggled to make the journey. Then, on April 27, 1865, seven miles north of Memphis, a series of three boilers exploded within seconds of one another. The lucky passengers were flung into the water as chunks of the Sultana blasted apart. The remaining wooden structure caught fire and the upper deck collapsed. Only an estimated one third of the passengers survived, hundreds of whom later died from their wounds. First published in 1988, Bryant's account weaves together the many strands of the Cahaba story. Combining masterful storytelling and insightful analysis, he describes Civil War prisons, the history of the Cahaba Federal Prison and its construction, as well as the prison's commanders, prisoners, and local women who provided medical care and food to the prisoners. He tells of the violent struggles among Union inmates, a mutiny and flood that occurred during the final days of the camp, and the harrowing deaths of the liberated soldiers aboard the Sultana . Bryant's Cahaba Prison and the Sultana Disaster remains a vital part of any library of Civil War history., Tells the dramatic story of the infamous Confederate prisoner-of-war camp where 5,000 Union soldiers were interned during the latter part of the Civil War and of the ensuing maritime disaster, Tells the dramatic story of the infamous Confederate prisoner-of-war camp where 5,000 Union soldiers were interned during the latter part of the Civil War and of the ensuing maritime disaster With a death rate of 5 percent, Alabama's Cahaba Federal Prison boasted a better survival rate than the notorious Confederate prisoner-of-war camps of Andersonville, Libby Prison, Elmira, Rock Island, Johnson's Island, and Camp Douglas. Yet it was a ghastly facility, a hastily converted agricultural warehouse so overcrowded that each man barely had space to lie down to sleep. At the war's conclusion in 1865, however, in a harrowing reversal of the inmates' fates, captured Union soldiers were sent on a grueling overland march to the Mississippi River. Held there in camps at Vicksburg along with other prisoners of war, the soldiers embarked on the steamship Sultana for transportation north. Traveling first to New Orleans and then heading north, the vessel held by some estimates six times more passengers than its safe limit, many of them ill, injured, or malnourished. The flow of the swollen Mississippi that April was wide, swift, and cold, and the Sultana struggled to make the journey. Then, on April 27, 1865, seven miles north of Memphis, a series of three boilers exploded within seconds of one another. The lucky passengers were flung into the water as chunks of the Sultana blasted apart. The remaining wooden structure caught fire and the upper deck collapsed. Only an estimated one third of the passengers survived, hundreds of whom later died from their wounds. First published in 1988, Bryant's account weaves together the many strands of the Cahaba story. Combining masterful storytelling and insightful analysis, he describes Civil War prisons, the history of the Cahaba Federal Prison and its construction, as well as the prison's commanders, prisoners, and local women who provided medical care and food to the prisoners. He tells of the violent struggles among Union inmates, a mutiny and flood that occurred during the final days of the camp, and the harrowing deaths of the liberated soldiers aboard the Sultana . Bryant's Cahaba Prison and the Sultana Disaster remains a vital part of any library of Civil War history.
LC Classification Number
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