Loss of the Sultana by Chester D. Berry ~ Full Audiobook [history]

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11/11/22

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Loss of the Sultana by Chester D. Berry audiobook.

Genre: history

In April 1865, as the Civil War collapses into uneasy peace and the nation reels from Abraham Lincoln's assassination, thousands of Union prisoners are finally released from Confederate camps like Andersonville and Cahaba. For many of these gaunt, half-starved soldiers, the steamboat Sultana seems like a last hard step on the road home. Instead, it becomes a floating pressure cooker of exhaustion, bureaucracy, and greed: a vessel built for a few hundred people is packed with more than two thousand, pushing north on the Mississippi after a hurried repair and a rushed loading at Vicksburg.Chester D. Berry, himself a survivor, reconstructs the tragedy through a blend of firsthand narrative, gathered testimonies, and documentary detail. Voices from men who endured prisons, marches, and hospitals now confront a new enemy - fire, boiling steam, icy river water, and the chaos of a night-time catastrophe near Memphis. As Berry follows the disaster and the investigations that follow, he also probes the unsettling question of how the worst maritime loss of life in American history could be so quickly overshadowed, and what happens when survivors must fight not only to live, but to be remembered.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 001

(00:09:12) Chapter 002

(00:12:42) Chapter 003

(00:40:14) Chapter 004

(00:46:14) Chapter 005

(00:47:32) Chapter 006

(00:48:51) Chapter 007

(00:54:58) Chapter 008

(00:57:58) Chapter 009

(01:01:09) Chapter 010

(01:03:59) Chapter 011

(01:07:02) Chapter 012

(01:09:52) Chapter 013

(01:18:53) Chapter 014

(01:20:14) Chapter 015

(01:21:29) Chapter 016

(01:46:22) Chapter 017

(01:56:38) Chapter 018

(01:58:13) Chapter 019

(02:14:01) Chapter 020

(02:21:10) Chapter 021

(02:35:46) Chapter 022

(02:38:36) Chapter 023

(02:41:47) Chapter 024

(02:42:54) Chapter 025

(02:58:16) Chapter 026

(03:01:09) Chapter 027

(03:04:05) Chapter 028

(03:09:22) Chapter 029

(03:14:22) Chapter 030

(03:20:08) Chapter 031

(03:21:31) Chapter 032

(03:27:01) Chapter 033

(03:29:48) Chapter 034

(03:36:40) Chapter 035

(03:38:44) Chapter 036

(04:05:23) Chapter 037

(04:24:32) Chapter 038

(04:37:07) Chapter 039

(04:38:27) Chapter 040

(04:39:45) Chapter 041

(04:42:07) Chapter 042

(04:52:36) Chapter 043

(04:59:19) Chapter 044

(05:06:06) Chapter 045

(05:10:50) Chapter 046

(05:16:49) Chapter 047

(05:24:06) Chapter 048

(05:30:26) Chapter 049

(05:33:20) Chapter 050

(05:40:35) Chapter 051

(05:41:36) Chapter 052

(05:44:02) Chapter 053

(05:51:28) Chapter 054

(05:59:11) Chapter 055

(06:01:18) Chapter 056

(06:04:48) Chapter 057

(06:06:09) Chapter 058

(06:07:20) Chapter 059

(06:08:42) Chapter 060

(06:12:33) Chapter 061

(06:24:48) Chapter 062

(06:28:52) Chapter 063

(06:30:11) Chapter 064

(06:32:06) Chapter 065

(06:41:58) Chapter 066

(06:44:50) Chapter 067

(06:52:40) Chapter 068

(06:55:42) Chapter 069

(07:00:23) Chapter 070

(07:03:55) Chapter 071

(07:06:17) Chapter 072

(07:08:50) Chapter 073

(07:13:28) Chapter 074

(07:18:03) Chapter 075

(07:24:12) Chapter 076

(07:34:34) Chapter 077

(07:38:48) Chapter 078

(07:41:55) Chapter 079

(07:44:37) Chapter 080

(07:47:59) Chapter 081

(07:52:39) Chapter 082

(07:59:39) Chapter 083

(08:10:03) Chapter 084

(08:14:30) Chapter 085

(08:20:04) Chapter 086

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November 10, 2022

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The Ghost of Guir House by Charles Willing Beale audiobook.

Genre: horror

When New Yorker Paul Henley receives a curious letter clearly meant for someone else, he does not toss it aside. On impulse - and with a growing fascination he cannot quite explain - he answers the invitation and travels south to the isolated Guir House in rural Virginia. There he meets Miss Dorothy Guir, an intelligent and disarming hostess whose warmth only deepens the unease that clings to her family's ancient, black-stone mansion. Inside its shadowed halls, strange portraits, half-forgotten histories, and whispered warnings suggest that Guir House is not merely old, but marked by something restless. As Paul tries to navigate the consequences of his initial deception, he is drawn into a tightening web of secrets surrounding the Guir name, the house's unsettling reputation, and a series of uncanny experiences that blur the line between superstition and something far more unsettling. With threads of gothic romance, psychological suspense, and late-Victorian fascination with hypnotism and occult philosophy, The Ghost of Guir House builds a steadily mounting dread around one question: is the haunting in the walls, in the past, or in the mind itself?

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:34:05) Chapter 02

(01:02:07) Chapter 03

(01:22:50) Chapter 04

(01:51:51) Chapter 05

(02:29:06) Chapter 06

(02:56:18) Chapter 07

(03:28:00) Chapter 08

(03:52:18) Chapter 09

(04:19:13) Chapter 10

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The Orphan by Clarence Edward Mulford ~ Full Audiobook [adventure]

November 11, 2022

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514m

The Orphan by Clarence Edward Mulford audiobook.

Genre: adventure

Many men swore that The Orphan was bad, and many swore profanely and with wonderful command of epithets because he was bad, but for obvious reasons that was as far as the majority went to show their displeasure. Those of the minority who had gone farther and who had shown their hatred by rash actions only proved their foolishness; for they had indeed gone far and would return no more. But Sheriff Jim Shields is tracking The Orphan, wanted for the murder of sheepherders, and won’t stop until he brings the bad man to justice.

Often billed as the second book in Clarence Mulford’s Hopalong Cassidy series, Hoppy doesn’t appear in this one, but it’s still as rip-roaring a western as you’ll ever see.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:13:19) Chapter 02

(00:37:36) Chapter 03

(00:52:25) Chapter 04

(01:10:28) Chapter 05

(01:34:57) Chapter 06

(02:04:48) Chapter 07

(02:32:39) Chapter 08

(02:39:30) Chapter 09

(02:58:46) Chapter 10

(03:32:30) Chapter 11

(03:59:20) Chapter 12

(04:21:00) Chapter 13

(04:58:43) Chapter 14

(05:31:33) Chapter 15

(05:54:33) Chapter 16

(06:13:01) Chapter 17

(06:46:11) Chapter 18

(07:05:06) Chapter 19

(07:19:43) Chapter 20

(07:38:33) Chapter 21

(07:47:28) Chapter 22

(08:09:18) Chapter 23

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