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The End of the War: Camp Fisk and the Sultana  

The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies

Reports on the loss of the steamer Sultana

• No. 1.--Report of Maj. Gen. Napoleon J. T. Dana, U. S. Army, commanding Department of Mississippi.

• No. 2.--Report of Maj. Gen. Cadwallader C. Washburn, U. S. Army, commanding District of West Tennessee.

• No. 3.--Report. of Bvt. Brig. Gen. William Hoffman, U. S. Army, Commissary-General of Prisoners.

• No. 4.--Report of Brig. Gen. Joseph Holt, Judge-Advocate. General, U. S. Army.

• No. 5.--Report of Actg. Ensign James H. Berry, U. S. Navy. (also "inclosures" that refute Berry's report)

  Correspondence on the loss of the steamer Sultana

• April 28, 1865, Memphis, Tenn., Major General C.C. Washburn to Secretary of War E. M. Stanton

• April 30, 1865, Special Orders No 195

• May 2, 1865, Washington, D.C., Message on Use of Safe Transports from Lewis B. Parsons, Chief of Rail and River Transportation

• May 8, 1865, Headquarters, Department of Mississippi, Major General N.J.T. Dana to Brigadier General William Hoffman

• May 14, 1865, Memphis, Tenn., Major General C.C. Washburn to Brigadier General W. Hoffman

• October 15, 1865, Washington City, Excerpts from Report by the Army's Chief of  Rail and River Transportation

Dyer's Compendium

• Men Lost in the Destruction of the Steamer Sultana

Related Journal and Newspaper Articles

• "Boiler Explosions on Western Waters," The Scientific American, New York: Munn & Company, April 7, 1866
• Letter to the Editor, “The Harrison Steam Boiler,” The Scientific American, May 13, 1866
• “Steamboat Explosions in the West,” Debow’s Review, Sept 1866
• Excerpt from "The Chances of Being Hit in Battle," by Colonel William F. Fox, The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, 1888

Books Excerpts

• Campfire and Cotton-field: Southern Adventure in Time of War, by Thomas W. Knox, 1865

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