I like the song,Art. I recently read about the Sultana disaster in Civil War Times . Tragic to think of these men who had survived hell in the Southern prison camps meeting death so close to home. Was there any credence given to the theory you mention in your song, that the riverboat may have been sabotaged?

Was "Waitin on the Robert E Lee" a piece of riverboat folk music, or of more recent vintage? How about " Eight More Miles to Louisville."