This bibliography offers further reading and research into the Sultana, as well as other steamboat disasters.
Resources on the Sultana Disaster
Floyd, William B. The Burning of the Sultana. The Wisconsin Magazine of History 11, no 1 (September 1927): 70-76. JSTOR.
Koster, John. Surviving the Sultana: the Chester Berry Story. Michigan History Magazine 94, no 1 (January 2010): 42-51. America: History & Life with Full Text.
T. J. M., 2011. Did a Coal Torpedo Sink Sultana? Civil War Times 50, no 6 (Decemeber 2011): 52-53. America: History & Life with Full Text.
Trudeau, Noah Andre. Death on the River. Naval History 23, no 4 (August 2009): 30-7. America: History & Life with Full Text.
U.S. Government Reports on the Sultana Disaster
U.S. House. Annual Report of Secretary of Treasury on State of Finances, 1865. (H. Exdoc. 3; Serial Set 1254). Text in: Proquest® Serial Set Digital Collection.
U.S. Dept. of War. Rebellion Records, Series 2, Prisoners of War and State, Vol. 8: Correspondence, Returns, and Orders, January 1865 to end (H. Doc. 314; Serial Set 3794).Text in: Proquest® Serial Set Digital Collection.
U.S. Dept. of War. Annual Report of Secretary of War, 1865, Part 1. (H Exdoc. 1/20; Serial Set 1249). Text in: Proquest® Serial Set Digital Collection.
U.S. Dept. of War. Rebellion Records, Series 1, Vol. 23, Pt. 2: Operations in Kentucky, Middle and East Tennessee, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia, January – Aug. 1863, Correspondence. (H. Misdoc. 129; Serial Set 2660). Text in: Proquest® Serial Set Digital Collection.
U.S. House. Committee on War Claims. War Claims – John T. Watson. (H. Rp. 65; Serial Set 1623). Text in: Proquest® Serial Set Digital Collection.
U.S. Dept. of War. Naval War Records, Series 1, V. 22 Pt. 1: West Gulf Blockading Squadron, January 1,1865-Jan. 31, 1866. (H. Doc. 1024/1; Serial Set 5451). Text in: Proquest® Serial Set Digital Collection.
U.S. Dept. of War. Rebellion Records, Series 1, V. 48, Pt. 1: Operations in Louisiana and Trans-Mississippi States and Territories, January-June 1865, Reports. (H. Doc. 369/1; Serial Set 3436). Text in: Proquest® Serial Set Digital Collection.
U.S. Dept. of War. Rebellions Records, Series 1, V. 52, Pt. 1: Operations in Southwestern Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, West Florida, and Northern Georgia, Supplement to Previous Volumes, Reports and Correspondence. (H. Doc. 288; Serial Set 3684). Text in: Proquest® Serial Set Digital Collection.
Representative Fleming (LA). “Recognizing the Anniversary of the Accident of SS Sultana.” Congressional Record 155: 62 (April 27, 2009) p. H4739. Available from: Proquest® Congressional.
Resources on Other Steamboat Disasters
Krueger, Bradkey A. Steamboat Archaeology on the Great Lakes: The Anthony Wayne Shipwreck Survey. Inland Seas 66, no 2 (Summer 2010): 98-116. America: History and Life with Full Text.
McHugh, Edward J. The Crash of the Chesapeake. Inland Seas 65, no 2 (Summer 2009): 119-27. America: History and Life with Full Text.
Pfeiffer, David A. 2009. Lincoln for the Defense: Railroads, Steamboats and the Rock Island Bridge. Railroad History no 200 (Spring/Summer 2009): 48-55. America: History and Life with Full Text.
Stewart-Abernathy, Leslie “Skip”. Ghost Boats at West Memphis. The Arkansas Historical Quarterly 67, no 4 (Winter 2008):398-413. America: History and Life with Full Text.
Woods, Fred E. Making Friends in Missouri: Telling the Steamboat Saluda Story and its Aftermath. Mormon Historical Studies 11, no 2 (September 2010): 101-112. America: History & Life with Full Text.
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