Dryden Dole DONALDSON - Media
Dryden Dole DONALDSON - Media
Battle of Sulphur Trestle by Stone
LYN STONE The “Battle of Sulphur Creek Trestle”, Elkmont, Alabama, The September 1864 Civil War Battle of Sulphur Trestle, in Limestone County, cut a crucial Union supply line and was a victory for the Confederate forces under Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest. The engagement over the railroad bridge was the bloodiest to take place in north Alabama. Union soldier Dryden was taken prisoner at this battle.
Battle of Sulphur Trestle sign
Battle of Sulphur Trestle sign
Union Soldier
Dryden Dole Donald Civil War
Dryden Dole Donald Civil War
Sultana monument, Knox, Tennessee
Sultana monument, Knox, Tennessee dedicated to the soldier lost in the Sultana’s sinking. Posted on Ancestry by DorothyMorgan66.
Sultana Disaster sign
Sultana Disaster sign
Sultana Disaster
Explosion of the Steamer "Sultana," April 28 1865 from
Harper's Weekly. Sultana was a Mississippi River side-wheel steamboat, which exploded on April 27, 1865, in the worst maritime disaster in United States history. Although designed with a capacity of only 376 passengers, she was carrying 2,137 when three of the boat's four boilers exploded and she burned to the waterline and sank near Memphis, Tennessee.[3] The disaster was overshadowed in the press by events surrounding the end of the American Civil War, including the killing of President Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth just the day before, and no one was ever held accountable for the tragedy. Dryden Dole Donaldson survived the sinking, but died shortly thereafter.
Dryden Dole Donaldson grave 2022
Kathy Donaldson at the grave of her 2nd great graduncle Dryden Dole Donaldson grave 2022.


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