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Sultana

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by Alan Huffman


  Lugenbeal, William, 205, 222

  McCook, Edward, 14, 33–35, 68–76, 89

  McCord, “Susan,” 224, 226

  McCormick, A.S., 256

  McCrory, L.W., 171, 211, 225

  McFarland, William, 188, 204, 224–25, 238

  McGinty, Thomas, 169, 186

  McIntosh, Epenetus, 188

  McLeod, Daniel, 178, 202, 221–22, 224, 226, 232–33, 235

  McMillan, D.E., 122–26

  Macon & Western Railroad, 68–71, 74

  Maddox, Elvira, 251

  Maddox, John C., xii

  boarding Sultana, 174–75

  at Cahaba prison, 109

  capture of Tolbert and, 76

  death of, 269

  enlistment of, 6, 8, 10–12

  intestinal disorder of, 40, 41–42, 47

  in local militia, 3, 6, 10

  at Memphis Soldiers Home, 226

  onboard Belle of Memphis, 237, 238

  pension application, 240, 251

  postwar years, 247–52, 254–55

  as recruit, 12–14, 17–18, 35

  return home after disaster, 240

  survival in the water, 3

  Maddox, Margaret, 251

  Maddox, Mary, 251

  Maddox, William, 247

  Madison, Indiana, 5–6, 240, 245–46

  Madison Courier, 12, 14, 40, 246–48, 254, 269

  Maes, Jotham, 200

  Magee, Benjamin, 244, 252

  Marietta, Georgia, 73

  Marshall, William, 209

  Marvel, William, 139–40, 145–46

  Mason, J. Cass, 169, 172–73, 175, 178–84, 186, 194–95

  Mattoon, Illinois, 238–39

  Matz, John, 63

  Melvin, Samuel, 145–53

  memories, 29–30, 258–59

  Memories of Old Cahaba, 262

  Memphis, Tennessee, 185–89, 231–37

  Memphis Argus, 234, 235

  Memphis Daily Bulletin, 232, 233

  Memphis Soldiers’ Home, 226, 232, 233, 237

  Merchant and People’s Steamboat Line, 180

  Meridian, Mississippi, 121–22

  military contracts, 69–70, 169

  Miller, William Blufton, 38–39, 57, 74

  Minié balls, 86

  Missionary Ridge, 30, 95, 256

  Mississippi River, 175, 206–7

  flooding (2008), 271–72

  Montgomery, Alabama, 65, 88

  Montgomery & West Point Railroad, 58, 65–66

  Morgan, John Hunt, 10–11, 33–34

  Morgan, Thomas J., 100

  Morrow, William, 233

  Mosby, John S., 141

  Moss, Joe, 192–93

  mule jokes, 59

  mules, 52, 59

  Nashville, Tennessee, 77, 95

  National Archives, 7

  neocortex, 32–34, 37–38

  New Albany Ledger, 14

  New Bethel Church, 7, 249

  Newnan, Georgia, 71–72

  New River, 72–73

  Newton, Thomas, 90–91, 131–34, 140, 141, 158, 159–60, 258

  New York Times, 234

  Nine Mile Creek, 100–101

  Norton, Henry, 198–99

  O’Hara, James, 169, 186

  Ohio River, 5, 175

  Old Bridgeport Road, 276

  Olive Branch, 174, 180

  110th Regiment Infantry U.S. Colored Troops, 95–97

  115th Regiment Ohio Infantry, 227

  On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society (Grossman), 36–38

  Overton Hospital, 232, 233

  Owl Rock Church, 55, 70, 75–76

  Paddy’s Hen and Chickens, 189

  Palmetto, Georgia, 70

  Pauline Carroll, 174, 181, 182–83

  Paynesville, Indiana, 246, 254

  Peacock, William, 199–200

  Perker, Jerry, 210

  Perryville, Kentucky, 14, 30–31

  Pickens, Samuel, 209

  Pocahontas, 205–6, 218, 224–25

  Poe’s Crossroads, 45–46

  Porter, W.C., 188

  post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), 258

  Potter, Jerry O., 277, 283

  prisoner exchanges, 90, 111, 127–30, 155–56, 159–60, 171–72

  prisoner-of-war camps, 28, 89–93, 260–62. See also Andersonville prison; Cahaba prison

  property ownership, in prison camps, 138–39

  Providence Spring, 143–44

  provisions, 50, 109

  quinine, 41, 223

  racism, 94

  raiders

  at Andersonville prison, 140–43

  at Cahaba prison, 112–14

  Rankin’s Ferry, Tennessee, 46

  Ransom, John L., 142, 155–56, 275

  Raudebaugh, Samuel, 175–76

  Rear Guard of Company H.: Officers and Privates surviving January 1st, 1910 (reunion scrapbook), 254

  Red Badge of Courage (Crane), 30, 35

  Ringgold, Georgia, 49

  Robertson, Melville Cox, 115–16, 120–21, 164, 169–70

  Robinson, George A.

  at Adams Hospital, 232–33

  at Cahaba prison, 121–22

  Chickamauga battle, 18, 19

  onboard Sultana, 186, 187–88, 191–92

  postwar years, 259, 268

  rescue from water, 217

  survival in the water, 3, 208–9, 217, 258

  Rosadella, 224, 235

  Rosecrans, William, 21, 27

  Rose Hambleton, 224

  Ross, L.S., 70, 71, 82, 103

  Rousseau, Lovell, 57–69, 73, 248

  Rowberry, William, 178, 184, 189, 234

  Rowe, Asa, 143, 146–47, 149–51

  Rush, J.W., 194–95, 211, 215, 222, 237

  sabers, 12

  saddles, 69–70

  Safford, George, 204, 231–32, 263

  St. Patrick, 238

  Salecker, Gene Eric, 171, 173, 180–81, 233, 237, 244

  Saluda, Indiana, 8–9, 11–12, 245–46

  Sample, Thomas, 79

  2nd Regiment Indiana Cavalry, 21, 28, 29, 33–34, 49, 71, 89

  2nd Regiment Michigan Cavalry, 121

  Selma, Alabama, 57–58

  Sherman, William Tecumseh, 30, 39, 58, 67, 68–69, 78–80, 100

  Sherman’s Horsemen: Union Cavalry Operations in the Atlanta Campaign (Evans), 58, 67

  Silver Spray, 224–25

  Sisters of Charity, 184, 185, 208, 235

  skin ulcers, 136

  slaves and slavery, 64–65, 94

  smallpox, 136

  Smith, Commodore, 201–3, 224–25

  Smith, Morgan, 173

  Smith, Truman, 198–99, 211–12, 232–33, 235

  Smoked Yank (Grigsby), 260–62

  Snodgrass, W.H., 79

  Snow, William D., 187, 198, 224–25, 236

  soldiers, 35–46

  black, 93–105

  cavalrymen, 50–55, 69–70

  survival decisions, 23–26, 29–34

  underage, 77–79

  Speed, Frederick, 172–73, 181–82, 242–43

  Spencer rifles, 26

  Spikes, Dewitt Clinton, 178, 221, 235–36

  Sprinkle, M.H., 202–3

  steamboat boiler explosions, 191–93, 243–44

  Stevens, Joseph, 193–94

  Stevenson, Alabama, 44, 47

  Stilesborough, Georgia, 89

  Stillwell, Joseph, 78–79

  Stockade Creek, 133, 135–36

  Stoneman, George, 68–69, 127–28

  Stone’s River, 64, 89, 95

  Street, Thomas, 266

  Streeter, William, 242

  Sultana, xii–xiii, 172–220

  boarding at Vicksburg, 174–76, 181–83

  boiler explosion, 191–93, 243–44

  boiler problems, 175, 178–81, 242

  boiler repairs, 175, 176, 179–80, 234

  building and outfitting of, 176–77


  Cairo docking, 168–69

  death toll, 232, 243

  debarks Vicksburg, 184

  the disaster, 191–226

  head count, 176, 183, 184, 232

  historical marker (Mound City, Arkansas), 276–77

  investigations into disaster, 234, 242–44

  Memphis docking, 185–89

  overcrowding aboard, 176, 182–85

  rescue efforts, 212–26

  sabotage allegations, 242

  survivors, number of, 232–33

  survivors’ reunion (April 27, 1914), 255

  Vicksburg docking, 174, 179

  Sultana Tragedy, The (Potter), 277

  Summerville, Perry, 89–93, 259

  boiler explosion onboard Sultana, 193

  at Cahaba prison, 92–93, 109

  Chickamauga battle, 18, 21, 28

  McCook’s raid, 33–34, 89

  postwar years, 268–69

  rescue from water, 224–25

  in 2nd Regiment Indiana Cavalry, 21, 28, 33–34, 49, 89

  survival in the water, 3, 210

  survival, as process, xiii–xiv

  survival decisions, 23–26, 29–34, 37–38

  Surviving the Extremes (Kamler), 37–38

  Talladega, Alabama, 64–65

  Tallapoosa River, 66

  Taylor, James, 75, 82, 247

  Tennessee River, 44, 46

  10th Regiment Indiana Infantry, 9, 31, 95

  Terre Haute, Indiana, 239

  39th Regiment Indiana Infantry, 44–47

  Champ Ferguson manhunt, 45

  Chickamauga battle, 17–28

  reconfigured as 8th, 28, 45

  Tolbert and Maddox enlistment in, 11–12, 17–18

  Thomas, George H., 56, 95

  Tolbert, Daniel, 14, 17, 74, 77, 246, 254

  Tolbert, Mathew, 28, 129

  Chickamauga battle, 17–18, 20, 21

  postwar years, 246, 247, 253

  Tolbert, Romulus, xi–xii

  at Adams Hospital, 226, 232–33

  boarding Sultana, 174–75

  at Cahaba prison, 108–9

  death of, 269

  enlistment of, 6, 8, 10–12

  lack of archival material on, 7–8

  in local militia, 3, 6, 10

  onboard Belle of Memphis, 237, 238

  pension application, 240, 248

  postwar years, 248–50, 252, 254–55, 269

  as recruit, 12–14, 17–18, 28, 35

  return home after disaster, 240, 245–48

  survival in the water, 2–3, 200

  wounding and capture of, 55–56, 75–76, 81–82, 85–86, 88, 276

  Tolbert, Samuel, 14, 77–80, 246–48, 252–53, 269

  Tolbert, Silas, 14, 17, 74, 246, 253–54

  Tolbert, Sophronia Eldridge, 248–49

  Tolbert, Tyrus, 14, 246, 253

  Tolbert farmstead, 8–9, 245–48

  Transport to Disaster (Elliott), 178, 179–80, 182–84, 187, 205, 214, 234

  tricksters, 35–36

  Tryus Church, 8–9

  tubular boilers, 179

  12th Regiment Infantry U.S. Colored Troops, 104–5

  22nd Regiment Indiana Infantry, 14, 17, 74, 77–80

  Tyler, U.S.S., 214

  Underground Railroad, 9, 31, 94

  Vicksburg, Mississippi, 10, 174–76, 181–84

  Vindicator, 235

  Vining’s Station, Georgia, 56, 57

  Walker, John Lowery, 233, 238

  Wamsley, Eli, 142

  Washington Hospital, 232

  Watkins, Sam, 22, 27

  Weiser, George, 129, 133, 134, 138–41, 156, 157

  West Chickamauga Creek, 18–19, 21

  Wheeler, Joseph, 50, 69, 71

  White, M.C., 195, 222

  Whitfield, R.H., 116

  Widow Glenn’s Farm, 17–21, 24

  Wilder, John, 19–20

  Wilder, Lucius, 137, 139, 143–44

  Wild Gazelle, 121

  Williams, George Augustus, 183, 243

  Williams, Thomas, 59, 64

  Wilson, Jack, 64

  Winters, Erastus, 232–33

  Wintringer, Nathan, 178–79, 184, 234, 242

  Wirz, Henry, 131, 139, 142, 143, 159, 241–42

  Woodbury, Anne, 8, 273

  Woodridge, William, 206, 222

  World War II, 279–80

  Young, George, 201, 209–10, 221–22, 236, 263–64

  About the Author

  ALAN HUFFMAN is a freelance journalist and the author of the highly acclaimed Mississippi in Africa. He has appeared on numerous NPR shows and has contributed to many publications, including Smithsonian magazine, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, and the Washington Post Magazine. He lives in Bolton, Mississippi.

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  Credits

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