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THE STEAMER Sl'LTASA.owed them a duty as well as my fellow suflerers.I found two mules hitched on theAffrom » Krbrl P#n to Kterulty—Death In til* PltllM* W*M.other side of the wreck and thought I would let one loose, take him by the tail, make him jump overboardAiMany Howard county soldiers audand tow me ashore, but before takingtheir friends will be interested in thea “tail holt I thought I would letfollowing graphic description of oneone go first and see how he performof the most thrilling events of theed. Just as he jumjied he kicked,Wwar. the sinking of the steamermule fashion, and 1 saw that my planioSultana, written by Win. Buchanan,would not work. Some comrade iutia brother of T. J. Buchanan, of thisthe water got this mule by the tailincounty :and sang out for me to turn them allwOn the 27th of April, 1665, occurredloose.HItine ot the most frightful calamities of1 then got me a small board andeithe war. and one that easily ranks asjumped into the river, pulling as hardstthe saddest ot the mauy sad eventsas 1 could until 1 was clear of thelathat brought death in horrible formscrowd. After going some distance Ihto so many brave men during thatcame up with a man struggling fortiunhapy time. The steamer Sultana.life. He asked me if I had a board ;loaded with returning prisoners fromI told him yes, but not big enough1Rebel pens, exploded her boilers, audfor two. He begged me to let himaout lt;*t l,'.t»i* poor souls, but T4o esrest on it, baying he could not die unbcaped alive.til he had seen his wife aud child. Iv1 have seen several accounts of thetold him 1 had a wife and childrendisaster, but will try to tell the factsalso: that 1 was almost giveu out andta- 1 saw them.nearly frozen, and that if I let himaWe came to Vicksburg from Castlerest on my board he would take ittIfMorgan, the Hebei prison at Cahaba,away from me; but he said he was1r-Ala., and were marched down to thebadly hurt in his ankle and gave me1;111h-vee and halted, preparatory to beingthe honor of a dying man that helt;1ksent North by steamer. The generalwould not keep it. I could not standI!■ iin command ot the post at Vicksburgit to hear him him beg, so I gave himi.ifound that he could, by packing us inthe board and I -wain just as long as1like hogs, crowd us all on board of1 could go. True to his word, hetthe steamer Sultana, bound for Cairo.gave me back my board, saying that1i •The captain of the steamer protestif he escaped he would remember mei.ed vigorously, representing to theas a benefactor.•*i«*general that he had on a “hull loadIt this man, or the one that got my1•iwould have to be unloaded at Memmule by the tail, should see this1i-phis which would leave him a purelyarticle I want them to write to me, as\a‘ top load from there to Cairo, audit will give me much pleasure to know1•tthat the men would, upon seeing aif I succeeded in doing them any.1light or boat on either side, rush to.i .i i.__. ____good.1lt;
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Kokomo Daily Gazette Tribune
Kokomo, Indiana, US
Tue, Feb 07, 1893
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