Cahaba Prison and the Sultana Disaster

by William O. Bryant

Book Overview

Tells the dramatic story of the infamous Confederate prisoner-of-war camp where 5,000 Union soldiers were interned during the latter part of the Civil War and of the ensuing maritime disaster With a death rate of 5 percent, Alabama's Cahaba Federal Prison boasted a better survival rate than the notorious Confederate prisoner-of-war camps of Andersonville, Libby Prison, Elmira, Rock Island, Johnson's Island, and Camp Douglas. Yet it was a ghastly facility,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817304681
• ISBN13: 9780817304683
• Release Date: April 1990
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.8"