General Grant escapes the swamps and a War Department move to relieve him of command
Most terrible steamboat disaster in history, probably, was the loss of the Sultana in 1865. Some 1,700 returning Union veterans died—yet the tragedy got very few headlines.
In Florida the great conquistador hoped to find a Golconda. Instead, he found a Golgotha.
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Nicholas Roosevelt’s fire canoe transformed the Mississippi.