My sister and I visit cemeteries all over the place. One day, we happened upon a random cemetery that we passed by and turned around to see. In this cemetery was a tombstone of someone who had died aboard the Sultana. I mentioned that I thought I had a book about the Sultana, and came home and read it that very day. I had never heard of the Sultana, and just happened to buy this book at a second hand store a couple of months before we saw the tombstone. I learned a lot from this book, but I am disappointed that I had never heard of it for it to be such a horrible disaster. I would suggest this book for anyone who is interested in the Civil War or disasters of any type.