{"product_id":"sultana-a-case-for-sabotage-paperback","title":"Sultana: A Case For Sabotage - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eD. H. Rule\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the groundbreaking North \u0026amp; South magazine article, featured on The History Channel in \"Civil War Terror,\" and in PBS \"History Detectives.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eGET THE WHOLE STORY of Confederate boatburner and spy, Robert Louden, called the \"murderer of the age.\"\u003c\/b\u003e Learn about his connection to the captain of the steamer Sultana, and about the band of saboteurs responsible for destroying 60 or more steamboats on the Mississippi River during the Civil War. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Convicted of destroying a steamer carrying millions of payroll meant for Grant's forces, sentenced to death, and coming within minutes of hanging, find out how Lincoln's stay of execution of Robert Louden may have led to a worse maritime disaster than the sinking of Titanic. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Among the steamboats destroyed on the Mississippi River, the one with the largest single loss of life was the steamer \u003ci\u003eSultana\u003c\/i\u003e. The boat had been loaded with over 2000 people, most of them Union POWs returning from Southern prison camps. When the \u003ci\u003eSultana\u003c\/i\u003e exploded and burned, as many as 1800 people were killed as many Union soldiers died on the river that night as died on the battlefield of Shiloh. With them died a number of women, children, and civilian men. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Was it an accident? Or sabotage? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Excerpt from \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSultana: \u003c\/i\u003e A Case For Sabotage\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Seven miles out of Memphis, at 2:00 a.m. on April 27, 1865, the steamer \u003ci\u003eSultana\u003c\/i\u003e chugged northward loaded with over twenty-three hundred people, most of them Union soldiers returning home from southern prison camps. Without warning, an explosion ripped through the boilers, scalding steam burst out, and a shower of flaming coal shot upward into the night, raining down on the crowded boat, which in moments was engulfed in flames. Over seventeen hundred people died, making the destruction of \u003ci\u003eSultana\u003c\/i\u003e a maritime disaster worse than the sinking of the \u003ci\u003eTitanic.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This publication also includes the full-length version of the originally published \u003ci\u003eNorth \u0026amp; South\u003c\/i\u003e article, with all footnotes and sources.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eD. H. Rule is an historical researcher and writer focusing on the US Civil War in the west, especially in St. Louis and the Mississippi River region.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 146\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.34 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 05, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42107153645703,"sku":"9781940058054","price":15.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/3818ccfc5ed30ea4d1752a34366c8c7e.webp?v=1732452386","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/sultana-a-case-for-sabotage-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}