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Charles River Editors
ASIN: B00MRMX0FG
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 32

*Includes pictures*Includes accounts of the explosion and sinking of the Sultana*Includes a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents There is a popular saying that declares “timing is everything,” and in no other field of study is that truer than in history. For instance, under normal conditions, a ship that sank with more than 2,000 passengers aboard – most of whom died – would be big news, yet today the sinking of the SS Sultana is often overlooked if not entirely forgotten. While it might have generated the type of publicity and reaction of the Johnstown Flood of 1889 or the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 under normal circumstances, the explosion and sinking of the Sultana on April 27, 1865 has become something of a historical footnote. The irony is that the Sultana is a historical footnote because of the Civil War, but it was also intimately tied to the war. ...
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3.5 stars from 12 ratings