BOOKS
Berry, Chester D., ed. Loss of the Sultana and Reminiscences of Survivors. 1892. Reprint, Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 2005.
Billings, John D. Hardtack and Coffee: The Unwritten Story of Army Life. 1887. Reprint, Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1993.
Bryant, William O. Cahaba Prison and the Sultana Disaster. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1990.
Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage. 1895; Reprint, New York: Penguin, 1994.
Elliott, James W. Transport to Disaster. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962.
Evans, David. Sherman’s Horsemen: Union Calvary Operations in the Atlanta Campaign. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1996.
Foote, Shelby. The Civil War: A Narrative. New York: Random House, 1963.
Gonzales, Laurence. Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why. New York: W.W. Norton, 2003.
Grossman, Dave, On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society. Boston: Back Bay Books/Little, Brown & Co., 1995.
Kamler, Kenneth, M.D. Surviving the Extremes: What Happens to the Body and Mind at the Limits of Human Endurance. New York: Penguin, 2004.
Marvel, William. Andersonville: The Last Depot. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1994.
McPherson, James M. For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Potter, Jerry O. The Sultana Tragedy: America’s Greatest Maritime Disaster. Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Co., 1992.
Ransom, John L. Andersonville Diary, Escape, and List of the Dead. 1881 (self-published). Reprint, Digital Scanning and Publishing, 2003.
Salecker, Gene Eric. Disaster on the Mississippi: The Sultana Explosion, April 27, 1865. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1996.
Speer, Lonnie R. Portals to Hell: Military Prisons of the Civil War. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1997. Reprint, Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2005.
Watkins, Sam. Company Aytch: Or, a Side Show of the Big Show. New York: Plume/Penguin Putnam, 1999.
DIARIES AND PERIODICALS
8th Indiana Cavalry. Reunion Booklet. Anne Woodbury collection.
Aldrich, Hosea. “Cahaba Prison: A Glimpse of Life in a Rebel Prison.”
Elliott, Joseph T. “The Sultana Disaster.” 1913. Genealogical Trails History Group.
Ely, John Clark. Journals. Jerry Potter; Memphis-Shelby County Library.
Hawes, Jesse. “Cahaba, A Story of the Captive Boys in Blue.” Burr Printing House, 1888. University of California Library, Los Angeles.
Hoblizel, John. Civil War Diary. Madison Historical Society.
Indiana Magazine of History, June 1932; June 1943; December 1953; June 1955; March 1956; June 1956; June 1997; September 1998
McBride, Laura Harrison. “Civil War Horses.” (www.us-civil-war.suite101.com).
National Sultana Survivors Association,. 31st Annual Reunion Proceedings Report. April 29, 1914. Gene Eric Salecker collection.
National Tribune. Nov. 30, 1887
Newton, Thomas, Pvt., Co. I, 6th Wisconsin. Memoirs. Theresa Peterson collection.
The Madison Courier (Weekly Courier) (dates cited in text).
Zettler, B.M. “War Stories & School-Day Incidents for the Children.” Neale Publishing Co.
WEB SITES
www.sultana.org
www.roundaboutmadison.com
www.sultanadisaster.com
www.myindianahome.com
www.civilwardata.com
www.nps.gov/andersonville
www.itd.nps.gov/cwss
OTHER SOURCES
Official Records of the Rebellion
U.S. Census records
Civil War pension and military records, National Archives, and Records Administration
Various records, Madison (Ind.) library