Tucker's War: Missouri and the Northwest Conspiracy - by G. E. Rule - original research on J. W. Tucker, one of the most important, yet shadowy, figures in the secret war for Missouri, head of the Boatburners a secret service sabotage unit

J. W. Tucker and the Boatburners (with Tucker's letter to Jefferson Davis)

Boatburners in the Official Records

The White Cloud Incident: The Curious Connection Between Robert Louden and James Cass Mason, Captain of the Sultana

The Steamer Ruth Another steamboat destroyed by Robert Louden

The Steamer Robert J. Campbell, Jr. Destroyed by Louden associate Isaac Elshire

Hell and Maria by G. E. Rule, Explosion of Steamer Maria near St. Louis so terrible it spawned the river phase "Hell and Maria".

The Confederate Secret Service Attack on the St. Louis Levee, September, 1864 by John B. Castleman

Documentation and Supporting Evidence for "The Sultana: A Case for Sabotage":

• Baker's list of boat-burners with part of Frazor's confession
• Louden Letters Written from Gratiot Street Prison, Louden confesses his guilt, and promises revenge
• St. Louis articles on the Sultana survivors that led to the Streetor/Louden article
• Memphis Daily Appeal article, May 8, 1888
• St. Louis Globe-Democrat article May 6, 1888
• Survivor Wiley J. Hodges remembrance
• Comment on sabotage by survivor Samuel H. Raudebaugh
• The Sabotage Scenario How the scene at Memphis may have played out
• Gene Eric Salecker, author of "Disaster on the Mississippi"offers his rebuttal to the article "Sultana: A Case For Sabotage" from North & South magazine, by D. H. Rule

Related pages on Civil War St. Louis:

• Gratiot Street Prison
• Gratiot Prisoner lists (Louden is on List #1)
• Cross Purposes (on the Northwest conspiracy)

People in the Sultana article:

• Absalom C. Grimes (Louden's wartime mail smuggling partner)
• Arthur C. McCoy (Louden's brother-in-law, captain under Gen JO Shelby)
• J. H. Baker (Provost Marshal hunting Louden)
• George E. Leighton (Provost Marshal who thought Louden a most dangerous spy)
• The Minute Men by Thomas L. Snead (Louden and McCoy were Minute Men)

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Books on the Sultana and Confederate secret service operations

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the coal bomb

More on Thomas E. Courtenay and the Courtenay Torpedo (this is at a website by a descendant)