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