Private Dill’s Eternal Rest
In Civil War literature accounts of contagious diseases sweeping through training camps, of Minié balls and artillery shells mowing down men in battle, and of gangrene claiming wounded men’s lives in hospitals abound, but these were not the only causes of soldiers’ deaths. Accidents also claimed many lives, but only a relative few incidents have become part of Civil War lore. One such exception involves the explosion of the Sultana. […]