The Sultana's Saboteur

Twelve days after the assassination of President Lincoln, the fictitious character Rummy Joe Greene, an embittered Confederate, sabotages the Mississippi riverboat "Sultana". The real-life explosion of the Sultana occurred near Memphis causing the deaths of approximately 1800 Union soldiers. To this day, it remains the worst maritime disaster ever in American waters.

The saboteur evades discovery and winds up in Charleston. For the next thirty-three years, he travels the Carolina coast, lead...