Michigan Men on The Sultana
Sources For Further Research
Sources Used:
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Book:
LOSS OF THE SULTANA
AND
REMINISCENCES OF SURVIVORS.
BY REV. CHESTER D. BERRY.
LANSING, MICH.
DARIUS D. THORP, PRINTER AND BINDER.
1892.
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Website: SeekingMichigan.org - has
the "Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War, 1861 - 1865"
which is searchable online.
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Website:
Ancestry.com Civil War Records
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Website:
Fold3.com
has many Civil War Records
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Civil War Soldier and
Sailors System - Regiment History and listing
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Varied news articles on GenealogyBank.com
The above were all used for this dataset so far to confirm and correct the
information from the book. We are waiting for some of the
films below to further research the men involved in this tragedy.
The sources listed below are
available to order into your local Family History Centers on microfilm.
- Roster of passengers on board the steamboat Sultana
author: Lundquist, John H.
- Manifest of Sultana's passengers & crew, April 27, 1865 author: Lundquist, John
H.
- NARA FILM: The proceedings and report of the court-martial of Capt. Frederick
Speed, court-martial case MM3967, RG 153 entry 15; Various bills relating to the
Sultana, RG 233; List of Federal prisoners who survived the Sultana, RG 249,
entry 107.
- NARA FILM: Various lists of soldiers who survived or perished on the Sultana, RG
249, entry 98. These lists do not include the names of civilians.
- Cahaba Federal Prison, Cahaba, Alabama : also known as Castle Morgan, a roster
of interned Union prisoners, 1862-1865 author: Lundquist, John H., Confederate
States of America. Cahaba Federal Prison (Cahaba, Alabama)
- Andersonville Confederate Prison records, 1864-1865 author: Andersonville Prison
(Andersonville, Georgia), United States. Commissary General of Prisoners
(Reminiscences also linked in Full List of Men)
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