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Remember the Sultana(2018)
April 27, 20181h 36m
Documentary
History
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Overview
Over 2000 Union soldiers, passengers and crew were crammed aboard the steamboat Sultana, licensed to carry 376. Graft, greed, overcrowding, a poorly maintained boat, and the Mississippi River was swollen with spring snowmelt conspired together to create a disaster. On April 27, 1865, the boat’s boilers exploded, causing the worst maritime disaster in US history.
“The Sultana was a river boat that exploded in 1865 killing many passengers, mostly Union Soldiers.”
