Erastus Winters not only survived disease, battle, and the Confederate prison camp at Cahaba, on the way home he survived what is still the worst maritime disaster in U.S. history--the sinking of the steamboat Sultana. His sometimes humorous, sometimes thrilling, and sometimes poignant true tale of a young man at war is one of the best by a private soldier in the Union army.He fought in Sherman's Atlanta Campaign and describes his feelings when under...
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