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by Alan Huffman


  Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage. 1895; Reprint, New York: Penguin, 1994.

  Elliott, James W. Transport to Disaster. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962.

  Evans, David. Sherman’s Horsemen: Union Calvary Operations in the Atlanta Campaign. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1996.

  Foote, Shelby. The Civil War: A Narrative. New York: Random House, 1963.

  Gonzales, Laurence. Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why. New York: W.W. Norton, 2003.

  Grossman, Dave, On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society. Boston: Back Bay Books/Little, Brown & Co., 1995.

  Kamler, Kenneth, M.D. Surviving the Extremes: What Happens to the Body and Mind at the Limits of Human Endurance. New York: Penguin, 2004.

  Marvel, William. Andersonville: The Last Depot. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1994.

  McPherson, James M. For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

  Potter, Jerry O. The Sultana Tragedy: America’s Greatest Maritime Disaster. Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Co., 1992.

  Ransom, John L. Andersonville Diary, Escape, and List of the Dead. 1881 (self-published). Reprint, Digital Scanning and Publishing, 2003.

  Salecker, Gene Eric. Disaster on the Mississippi: The Sultana Explosion, April 27, 1865. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1996.

  Speer, Lonnie R. Portals to Hell: Military Prisons of the Civil War. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1997. Reprint, Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2005.

  Watkins, Sam. Company Aytch: Or, a Side Show of the Big Show. New York: Plume/Penguin Putnam, 1999.

  DIARIES AND PERIODICALS

  8th Indiana Cavalry. Reunion Booklet. Anne Woodbury collection.

  Aldrich, Hosea. “Cahaba Prison: A Glimpse of Life in a Rebel Prison.”

  Elliott, Joseph T. “The Sultana Disaster.” 1913. Genealogical Trails History Group.

  Ely, John Clark. Journals. Jerry Potter; Memphis-Shelby County Library.

  Hawes, Jesse. “Cahaba, A Story of the Captive Boys in Blue.” Burr Printing House, 1888. University of California Library, Los Angeles.

  Hoblizel, John. Civil War Diary. Madison Historical Society.

  Indiana Magazine of History, June 1932; June 1943; December 1953; June 1955; March 1956; June 1956; June 1997; September 1998

  McBride, Laura Harrison. “Civil War Horses.” (www.us-civil-war.suite101.com).

  National Sultana Survivors Association,. 31st Annual Reunion Proceedings Report. April 29, 1914. Gene Eric Salecker collection.

  National Tribune. Nov. 30, 1887

  Newton, Thomas, Pvt., Co. I, 6th Wisconsin. Memoirs. Theresa Peterson collection.

  The Madison Courier (Weekly Courier) (dates cited in text).

  Zettler, B.M. “War Stories & School-Day Incidents for the Children.” Neale Publishing Co.

  WEB SITES

  www.sultana.org

  www.roundaboutmadison.com

  www.sultanadisaster.com

  www.myindianahome.com

  www.civilwardata.com

  www.nps.gov/andersonville

  www.itd.nps.gov/cwss

  OTHER SOURCES

  Official Records of the Rebellion

  U.S. Census records

  Civil War pension and military records, National Archives, and Records Administration

  Various records, Madison (Ind.) library

  SEARCHABLE TERMS

  Note: Entries in this index, carried over verbatim from the print edition of this title, are unlikely to correspond to the pagination of any given e-book reader. However, entries in this index, and other terms, may be easily located by using the search feature of your e-book reader.

  abolitionists, 9

  Adams, Charles, 51, 52

  Adams Hospital, 226, 232–33

  adrenaline, 32, 34

  Alabama River, 161–62

  Allison, Hiram, 209

  amygdala, 32–34, 37–38

  Anderson, Vincent, 11

  Andersonville: The Last Depot (Marvel), 139–40, 145–46

  Andersonville prison, 127–61

  chances of survival at, 131–37

  conditions at, 127–30

  George Stoneman’s attempt to liberate, 69

  John Clark Ely’s account, 227–30

  mortalities at, 130–31, 137–38

  postwar update on, 256, 276

  prisoner releases from, 155–61

  raiders at, 140–43

  Samuel Melvin’s account, 145–53

  Andersonville Raiders, 140–43

  Annis, Anna, 184, 197–98, 222, 226, 235

  Annis, Harvey, 184

  Appomattox Court House, 171

  Arkansas, 235

  Ashville, Alabama, 61, 63

  Athens, Alabama, 95–97

  Atlanta, Georgia, 74–75, 155

  Atlanta airport, xi–xiv

  Atlanta & West Point Railroad, 82

  Atlantic, 243

  Auburn, Alabama, 65, 67

  Baltic, 170

  Bardon, Otto, 223

  Barrett, John, 46–47

  Bartmess, Jacob, 39

  Barton, Clara, 256

  Barton, Frank, 214, 224

  Bate, William, 99

  battlefield stress, 38–40

  Belle of Memphis, 237–38

  Belle of St. Louis, 236

  Bell Tavern Hotel, 93, 115–16, 118

  Benham, James, 80

  Berry, Chester D., 158, 160, 161

  boiler explosion onboard Sultana, 196

  Loss of the Sultana and Reminiscences of Survivors (editor), 243, 257, 259, 262, 264

  onboard Sultana, 185, 186

  survival in the water, 218

  Berry, James, 215–17

  Big Black River, 160–61, 166, 168, 171–72

  Big Tennessee, 113–14, 188, 204, 225, 233

  Billings, John, 41, 43, 52–53

  black prisoners, 127–30

  black soldiers, 93–105

  Block, William, 204

  Boardman, William, 206, 214

  body lice, 89, 119, 134

  Boor, William, 176, 200, 208, 221, 239

  Booth, John Wilkes, 169

  boots, cavalrymen, 54

  Bostonia II, 212, 214, 224

  bounty jumpers, 35, 112–14

  Bragg, Braxton, 14, 95

  brain, 29–30, 32–34, 37–38

  Bridgeport, Tennessee, 28

  Bringman, Joseph, 199, 217

  Brink, Thomas, 200

  Broadway Tavern and Inn, 5–6

  Brody, James, 223–24

  brogans, 54

  Brown, Alexander C., 184, 204

  bugle calls, 28, 41

  Bush, Andrew, 9

  Butler, William, 178

  Cahaba, Alabama, 107–8, 272–73

  Cahaba prison, 107–26, 161–66

  commanders of, 109–10

  conditions at, 110, 112, 114–15, 117–19

  escape attempts at, 122–26

  flooding of, 161–64

  Melvin Grigsby’s account, 260–62

  mortalities at, 110–11, 116–17

  overcrowding of, 111–12

  Perry Summerville at, 92–93, 109

  prisoner releases from, 164–66

  raiders at, 112–14

  Cairo, Illinois, 168–69, 184, 236–38

  Caldwell, Robert J., 14–15

  Campbell, Wallace, 95–97

  Campbellton, Georgia, 55–56, 75–76, 81–82

  Camp Fisk, 159–61, 165–74

  Camp Oglethorpe, 69, 130

  Camp Sumter (Andersonville prison), 127–61

  chances of survival at, 131–37

  conditions at, 127–30

  George Stoneman’s attempt to liberate, 69

  John Clark Ely’s account, 227–30

  mortalities at, 130–31, 137–38

  postwar update on, 256, 276

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bsp; prisoner releases from, 155–61

  raiders at, 140–43

  Samuel Melvin’s account, 145–53

  Captain Monroe’s Independent Company, 10

  Carlin, William, 50

  Castle Morgan (Cahaba prison), 107–26, 161–66

  commanders of, 109–10

  conditions at, 110, 112, 114–15, 117–19

  escape attempts at, 122–26

  flooding of, 161–64

  Melvin Grigsby’s account, 260–62

  mortalities at, 110–11, 116–17

  overcrowding of, 111–12

  Perry Summerville at, 92–93, 109

  prisoner releases from, 164–66

  raiders at, 112–14

  cavalrymen, 50–55, 69–70

  Chattahoochee River, 55, 81–82

  Chattanooga, Tennessee, 18, 27, 28, 44, 49, 95

  Chelf, Simeon, 212, 233

  Cherokee Indians, 45

  Chicago Opera Troupe, 184–87, 235

  Chicago Tribune, 172

  Chickamauga, 17–28, 256

  Civil War, The (Foote), 21

  Civil War camps, 42–44

  Civil War soldiers, 35–46

  black, 93–105

  cavalrymen, 50–55, 69–70

  survival decisions, 23–26, 29–34

  underage, 77–79

  Clanton, James Holt, 63–64

  Clemens, Wes, 189

  Coosa River, 61–64

  Copperheads, 9

  Corinth, Mississippi, 95, 100

  Corliss, John, 122, 191–92, 268

  Corps d’Afrique, 121

  cowardice, 35

  Crane, Stephen, 30, 35

  Crawfish Springs, Georgia, 21

  Crisp, William, 201

  Curl, William, 62

  Currey, Willis, 266

  Dadeville, Alabama, 66

  Dalton, Georgia, 95, 97–100

  Dana, Charles Anderson, 27

  Dana, Napoleon J.T., 168, 170–71, 173, 182

  Davis, Ben, 192–93, 211–12, 214

  Davis, Jefferson, 82

  deadlines, at prison camps, 113, 130–31

  dead wagons, 137–38

  Decatur, Alabama, 58–59

  Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why (Gonzales), 31–33, 245, 259

  desertion, 36

  Devillez, Henry, 136–37

  diarrhea, 40–42, 163

  Dickinson, George, 79

  Disaster on the Mississippi (Salecker), 171, 173, 180–81, 233, 237, 244

  Discovery Channel, 5–6

  Dorr, Joseph, 127–28

  Dow, John M., 145–53

  Downey, George, 189

  Dozier, James, 178

  Dug Gap, Georgia, 100

  8th Regiment Indiana Cavalry, 18, 49–50

  39th reconfigured as, 28, 45

  Georgia and Alabama raids, 50, 54–55, 58–76

  reunion, 247–48

  8th Regiment Iowa Infantry, 71

  Eldridge, Asenath, 249

  Elliott, David, 265–66

  Elliott, J. Walter (aka David E. Elliott), 29–32, 129–30

  boiler explosion onboard Sultana, 200–203

  books passage for soldiers in Memphis, 237–39

  at Camp Fisk, 159–61, 170

  Chickamauga battle, 18, 30

  family background of, 31, 94–95

  in 44th Regiment Infantry U.S. Colored Troops, 93–105

  framing of his experiences, 29–32, 257–59

  in Memphis after disaster, 226, 231–32, 234, 237–39

  onboard Sultana, 185, 187, 188, 200

  postwar years, 264–68

  survival in the water, 1–4, 203, 213, 223, 224

  Elliott, James H., 94–95

  Elliott, James W., 178, 179–80, 182–84, 187, 205, 214, 234

  Elliott, John, 94

  Elliott, Joseph Taylor, 160, 207, 217

  Elliott, Robert, 94

  Elliott, Simeon, 94

  Elmwood Cemetery, 236, 277

  Ely, John Clark, 41, 161, 171, 227–30

  Ely, Julia, 227, 228–30

  Essex, 213–18, 235

  Evans, David, 58, 67

  Fairburn, Georgia, 82–84

  Fast, W.A., 194, 195–96, 218–21, 236

  Ferguson, Champ, 45, 49, 242

  5th Regiment Kentucky Infantry, 33–35

  54th Regiment Massachusetts Infantry, 94

  fight-or-flight response, 32–34

  Finch, William, 193

  1st Regiment Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, 145–46

  Fisk, Archie, 167–68

  Fitch, George, 104–5

  Fleming, Adgate, 197

  Florence prison, 157, 158, 258

  Fogleman, John, 206, 219–22, 235

  Foglesong, Nathaniel, 198, 221, 232–33

  Fontaine, J.D., 187

  Foote, Shelby, 21

  Ford’s Theater, 169

  Forrest, Nathan Bedford, 33–34, 75, 112, 272

  capture of Colored Infantries, 95–97, 100–105

  Fort Pickering, 215–17

  14th Regiment Infantry U.S. Colored Troops, 100

  44th Regiment Infantry U.S. Colored Troops, 93–105

  battle near Nashville, 100–105

  J. Walter Elliott as captain of, 93–95

  surrender at Dalton, 97–100

  Freedmen’s Bureau, 265

  Freisner, W.S., 201

  Gambrel, William J., 183, 184

  gangrene, 87, 136

  Gardner, Amanda, 107–8, 119–20, 165, 260–62

  Gardner, Belle, 119–20, 260–62

  Garrard, Kenner, 68–69

  Gaston, Stephen, 186, 187–88, 204, 214, 232–33

  Gayoso Hospital, 226, 232, 233, 235

  General Boynton, 213

  Gere, E.A., 122–26

  Gettysburg, 10, 86, 130

  Glenn, Eliza, 17–21, 24

  Glory (movie), 94

  Gonzales, Laurence, 31–33, 245, 259

  Graham, Thomas, 62–64, 75, 76, 247

  Grant, Ulysses S., 50

  Graves, A.C., 78, 79–80, 252–53

  Gray, Beau, 6–7

  Gray, Robert, 6–8

  Grigsby, Melvin, 120, 260–62

  Grimes, Abasalom, 122–26

  Grosbeak, U.S.S., 214

  Grossman, Dave, 36–38

  gunshot wounds, 81, 85–88

  Guntersville, Alabama, 265

  Hamblin, Ogilvie, 204–5, 221–22, 258

  Hamilton, Douglas, 66

  Hamilton, Robert, 214–15

  Hanchett, Hiram, 122–23

  Handy, George, 146–47, 152

  Hardin, Seth, 178, 208, 236

  Hardtack & Coffee: The Unwritten Story of Army Life (Billings), 41, 43, 52–53

  Harman, Henry, 137–38, 140

  Harper’s Weekly, 234

  Harrison, Thomas, 45–47, 50, 53

  at Andersonville prison, 127–28

  Chickamauga battle, 18, 21–22, 24–27

  McCook’s raid, 68–69, 71

  Harrison’s Landing, 46–47

  Harris’s Farm, Virginia, 145–46

  Hatch, Reuben, 172–73, 180–81, 243

  Hawes, Jesse

  at Cahaba prison, 88, 110–11, 113–14, 117–20, 123–26, 162, 163, 166

  wounding and capture of, 83, 85, 87–88, 91–92

  Hayes, C.W., 165

  Helena, Arkansas, 185

  Henderson, Howard, 109–11, 123, 162, 164

  Henry James, 174, 180, 188

  Hill, R.K., 206, 214

  Hills, William, 149

  hippocampus, 37–38

  Hitchcock, George, 134–35, 140, 141, 143–44, 156–57

  Holt, Edward, 143, 152

  Hood, John Bell, 69, 75, 97–98, 101

  horses, 50–54

  Huffman, A.D., 277–80

  Hulit, William, 239

  Hurricane Camille, 278

  Hurricane Katrina, 278

  Indianapolis
Journal, 94

  infected wounds, 85–88

  International Paper Company, 6

  intestinal disorders, 40–42

  Jacksonville, Alabama, 89

  James, Patience, 84–85

  Jefferson County, 9–10

  Jellison, William, 133, 134

  Jenny Lind, 224, 234–35

  Johnny Reb Lounge, 9

  Johnson, Joseph, 65

  Johnson, Lewis, 95, 97–105

  Johnson, R.W., 33–35

  Jones, Fielder, 18, 56, 58, 60–64, 68, 69, 72–75

  Jones, Joseph, 135–36

  Jones, Samuel, 109–10, 120, 123, 162–63

  Jonesboro, Georgia, 73–74

  Kamler, Kenneth, 37–38

  Kayton, George, 189, 234, 236

  Kerns, William, 181, 183, 243

  Keys, William Farrand, 134, 136, 140, 142, 156–58

  Kilpatrick, Hugh Judson, 73–74

  King, Albert, 196–98, 222

  Kinser, Hugh, 221

  knapsacks, 12–13

  Knowles, H.C., 101–3

  Ladies Christian Commission (Sisters of Charity), 184, 185, 208, 235

  Lady Gay, 181

  Larky, Patrick, 198

  Lawder, W.G., 248

  Lawson, Robert C., 251

  Leach, John, 100

  Lee, Robert E., 171, 230

  Lee, Wesley, 213

  lice, 89, 119, 134

  Lincoln, Abraham, 127–28, 169, 171, 172, 230, 234

  Little Eddie, 118

  Lockhart, Billy, 202–3

  Lodwick, Preston, 176

  Long, William, 178

  Lookout Mountain, 26–27, 256

  Loss of the Sultana and Reminiscences of Survivors (Berry, ed.), 243, 257, 259, 262, 264

  Lovejoy’s Station, 70–71

 

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