Robert Louden

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Robert Louden (died 1867) was a Confederate messenger and partisan in the American Civil War.

Louden was said to be the primary messenger for delivering messages from Sterling Price to Confederate regulars and bushwhackers. He was involved with the sinking of several Union steamboats in St. Louis, Missouri and at his death bed claimed to have sabotaged the Sultana, which killed 1,700 Union troops and civilians returning home after the war and is one of the worst maritime disaster in United States history.[1][2]

Louden died of Yellow Fever in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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  1. ^ William A. Tidwell, April '65. Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press, 1995, pg. 52.
  2. ^ G.E. and Deb Rule, "The Sultana: A case for sabotage," in North and South Magazine, Vol. 5, issue 1, December 2001.

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