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A Survivor of the Sinking of the Sultana

A Survivor of the Sinking of the Sultana David Madden Appalachian Heritage, Volume 20, Number 3, Summer 1992, pp. 16-20 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1992.0046 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/438392/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 21:39 GMT from JHU Libraries FICTION A Survivor of the Sinking of the Sultana David Madden When word reached us of Lee's surrender at Appomattox, we broke up Andersonville. After the guards and their prisoners had been released from prison, I slipped away from that place where I had watched many of the 12,000 out of 45,000 die. Most went to surrender, but I soon took up with some officers who said President Davis had been captured and who were heading west to set up a Trans-Mississippi Confederacy, although for my own part, I just had an inclination to roam out there in the West. But near Vicksburg, I heard that 2,000 survivors of Andersonville, Cahaba, and other Confederate prisons had been assembled at Vicksburg for transport north to be mustered out of the Union army. When I learned that about 500 of them were East Tennessee Unionists, I lagged behind General Smith's fugitives and got me some civilian clothes and went to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

A Survivor of the Sinking of the Sultana

Madden, David.
Appalachian Review , Volume 20 (3) – Jan 8, 2014
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David Madden Appalachian Heritage, Volume 20, Number 3, Summer 1992, pp. 16-20 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1992.0046 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/438392/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 21:39 GMT from JHU Libraries FICTION A Survivor of the Sinking of the Sultana David Madden When word reached us of Lee's surrender at Appomattox, we broke up Andersonville. After the guards and their prisoners had been released from prison, I slipped away from that place where I had watched many of the 12,000 out of 45,000 die. Most went to surrender, but I soon took up with some officers who said President Davis had been captured and who were heading west to set up a Trans-Mississippi Confederacy, although for my own part, I just had an inclination to roam out there in the West. But near Vicksburg, I heard that 2,000 survivors of Andersonville, Cahaba, and other Confederate prisons had been assembled at Vicksburg for transport north to be mustered out of the Union army. When I learned that about 500 of them were East Tennessee Unionists, I lagged behind General Smith's fugitives and got me some civilian clothes and went to

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