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To: fortes fortuna juvat; Tennessee Nana
And a couple of thousand of early "parolees" from Andersonville and another POW camp, whose homeward destination was up the Mississippi, had the misfortune of embarking on the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultana_(steamboat).
31 posted on 08/15/2020 4:04:07 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Calvin Locke

And a couple of thousand of early “parolees” from Andersonville and another POW camp, whose homeward destination was up the Mississippi, had the misfortune of embarking on the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultana_(steamboat).
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I am somewhat of a student of history, but did not know about this incident, so thanks for sending this.


32 posted on 08/16/2020 5:04:54 AM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (No foreign enemy is as dangerous as the Democrat Party and its supporters.)
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