In this powerful account of a surprisingly forgotten tragedy of the Civil War, follow several young Union soldiers through the Civil War and what was, for them, its unimaginable disastrous aftermath.

"Originally published in 1892, Loss of the Sultana and Reminiscences of Survivors is a collection of first-hand accounts by those who lived to tell the story of perhaps the worst maritime disaster in U.S. history." "On the Mississippi River just above Memphis at two o'clock on the morning of April 27, 1865, the steamboat Sultana, carrying over 2,400 passengers (it was licensed to carry only 356), exploded and sank. Over 1,700 people perished." "Most...