Ep#2: Murder on the Mississippi - The Ohio Belle & 1856 Zodiac Back

12/13/2023: On today's episode, Valerie covers the dastardly murder aboard the antebellum steamboat, Ohio Belle, and the retribution that followed. Amy Jo's Zodiac Back covers the great Jupiter/Neptune conjunction in Pisces from 1856 and 2022.

Cover Photo: The Ohio Belle

1. Mississippi River Map

2. Southern Duels

3. Saloon of Mississippi River Steamboat Princess by Marie Adrien Persac, 1861

4. Main Cabin on the Str. Minneapolis

5. An obituary for Captain John Sebastian

6. 1856 Outer Planets

7. 1856 Chart

8. A Victorian Era Séance

Sources/Photo Sources

Murder on the Mississippi - The Ohio Belle Sources:

Sanders, Stuart. (2020) Murder on the Ohio Belle. The University Press of Kentucky.

https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/confederate_ships/ohio-belle.html

https://youtu.be/fFfpneEHxzU

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_honor_(Southern_United_States)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Dame_aux_Cam%C3%A9lias

https://www.newspapers.com/image/466044666/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/167656345/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/174829699/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/171434778/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/321470399/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/119177381/?terms=

https://www.newspapers.com/image/legacy/349155343/?terms=%22ohio%20belle%22&match=1

https://www.newspapers.com/image/321470399/?terms=%22ohio%20belle%22&match=1

https://www.newspapers.com/image/legacy/349155667/?terms=%22ohio%20belle%22&match=1

https://www.newspapers.com/image/legacy/440202370/?terms=%22ohio%20belle%22&match=1

https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/united-states-and-canada/us-history/steamboats#:~:text=By%20the%201850s%20steamboats%20dominated,1817%2C%20but%20727%20by%201855

https://pastisaforeigncountry.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/murder-aboard-the-ohio-belle/

https://cincinnati.newspapers.com/article/the-cincinnati-enquirer-john-sebastian-d/17550791/

Murder on the Mississippi - The Ohio Belle Photo Sources:

https://1848.cincinnatilibrary.org/

https://cincinnati.newspapers.com/article/the-cincinnati-enquirer-john-sebastian-d/17550791/

https://kmalexander.com/2017/02/27/riverboat-interiors/

https://kmalexander.com/2017/02/27/riverboat-interiors/

https://www.americanrivers.org/river/mississippi-river/

https://owlcation.com/humanities/Honor-and-Violence-in-the-Early-American-South

Zodiac Back Sources:

Nicholas, Chani. (2021) You Were Born for This. Harper One

https://www.nylon.com/life/jupiter-neptune-conjunction-pisces-2022

https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2022/04/10935524/jupiter-neptune-conjunction-pisces-meaning-effects-april-2022

https://anneortelee.com/the-jupiter-neptune-conjunction/

Zodiac Back Photo Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9ance#/media/File:John_Beattie_Eugene_Rochas_seance.jpg