Dyer's Compendium

Part 2 Campaigns etc.

Battle Losses Arranged By States

Apr. 27  ... Loss Steamer Sultana   1238 (aggregate losses - missing and killed)

Battles, Campaigns, Etc., in Tennessee

April 27

Affair on Mississippi River near Memphis.

Destruction of Steamer "Sultana" with returning prisoners of war and discharged soldiers. Union loss, 1,238.

Pt. 3  -Regimental Histories

Indiana

• 10th Regiment Cavalry (125th Regiment Volunteers)
  • 3 Paroled Officers and 35 men lost on Steamer "Sultana" April 28, 1865.
• 9th Cavalry
  • lost 78 men on the Steamer Sultana

Ohio

• 102d Ohio
  • lost 70 men killed by the explosion of the steamer Sultana, on the Mississippi River, April 27, 1865;
• 115th Ohio l
  • ost 83 killed in the same accident

Tennessee

• 2d Tennessee Cavalry
  • lost 260 men killed in the explosion of the steamer Sultana, near Memphis.

   

Dyer, Frederick H., A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Compiled and Arranged from Official Records of the Federal and Confederate Armies Reports of the Adjutant Generals of the Several States, the Army Registers and Other Reliable Documents and Sources, Des Moines, Iowa: The Dyer Publishing Company, 1908

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