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Disaster on the Potomac: The Last Run of the Steamboat Wawaset

Disaster on the Potomac: The Last Run of the Steamboat Wawaset

Oickle, Alvin F.

Hardcover

Boating19th Century United States HistoryRegional: South

Publisher Price: $31.99

ISBN10: 154022077X
ISBN13: 9781540220776
Publisher: History Pr
Published: Nov 27 2009
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
For passengers of the steamboat Wawaset, August 8, 1873, began with a pleasant cruise from Washington, D.C., down the Potomac River. As the Wawaset came into sight of a small Virginia landing, fire broke out below decks, and frantic passengers leapt from the flames only to be pulled down by the swift waters. Author Alvin F. Oickle puts a human face to the tragedy as he profiles some of the seventy-five who perished, among them young mother Alethea Gray and six members of the Reed family. With a fast-paced style and firsthand accounts, Oickle masterfully narrates the last run of the Wawaset against the backdrop of a tense post-Civil War society.

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