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Peter Holman
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The Short Life and Sudden Death of the U.S. Army Transport Steamer "General Lyon"
出版CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018-07-20
主題History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
ISBN172111856X9781721118564
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=p3qsuQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋At 10 a.m. on March 31, 1865 the wooden-hulled screw steamer General Lyon caught fire during a violent storm in the Atlantic off Cape Hatteras, NC. In less than an hour, some 155 civilians, men, women and children along with 460 Union soldiers, discharged veterans on Sherman's March to the Sea and survivors of the Andersonville and Florence prison camps, died escaping the dangers of war while en route to the North. Only 29 men survived. It was the largest loss of American lives at sea to that date. But it was soon lost amongst the more dramatic events of April 1865 - Lee's surrender, the assassination of Lincoln, the hunt for and death of John Wilkes Booth and his conspirators and tragically, the even larger loss of life when the steamship Sultana catastrophically exploded on the Mississippi River. As a result, the inferno of the General Lyon has been all but passed over in the pages of history. This first ever examination of the history of the General Lyon and the people who traveled on her covers the single year of the ship's existence, from construction to destruction. It traces the identities of those on board and the paths that brought them to Wilmington at the end of March 1865, with photographs, illustrations and the most complete list of the ship's passengers available. Newspaper accounts, museum archives, original military and government documents and other sources, thoroughly footnoted, support this compelling narrative. -- From back cover.