Gene Eric Salecker is recognized as one of the leading authorities on the
Sultana Disaster and owns the largest collection of
Sultana memorabilia. A retired police officer and middle school teacher, he is currently the historical consultant for the
Sultana Disaster Museum, Marion, Arkansas.
2 Ebooks by Gene E. Salecker
Gene E Salecker: Destruction of the Steamboat Sultana
The Sultana was a sidewheel Mississippi steamboat carrying almost two thousand recently-released Union prisoners-of-war back north at the end of the Civil War. At 2:00 a.m. on April 27, 1865, when th …
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Gene E Salecker: Disaster on the Mississippi
At two o’clock in the morning on 27 April 1865, seven miles north of Memphis on the Mississippi, the sidewheel steamboat Sultana’s boilers suddenly exploded. Legally registered to carry 376 people, t …
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€30.99
