Cahaba Prison and the Sultana Disaster (Library of Alabama Classics) - Hardcover

Bryant, William O.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0817304681 ISBN 13: 9780817304683

Publisher: University Alabama Press, 1990

Synopsis

This is the story of the little-known prisoner-of-war camp on the banks of the Alabama River near Selma where 5,000 Union soldiers were interned during the latter part of the Civil War. After surviving imprisonment and a forced march overland to the Mississippi River, they were to die in the worst accident of its type in U.S. history - when the Sultana steamship exploded in mid-river while transporting them back to their homes in the North.

About this title

About the Author:

William O. Bryant resided in Murfreesboro, TN and was the author of Cahaba Prison and the Sultana Disaster.

 

Review:

"Bryant deftly links the Cahaba and Sultana stories, bases his work on a variety of published and unpublished sources, and reminds us that war's legacy often derives from other than the drums and trumpets of the battlefield."—Journal of American History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

About this edition

• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0817304681
• ISBN 13: 9780817304683
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208