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Loading... Destruction of the Steamboat Sultana: The Worst Maritime Disaster in American Historyby Gene E. Salecker
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"The Sultana was a sidewheel Mississippi steamboat carrying almost two thousand recently-released Union prisoners-of-war back north at the end of the Civil War. At 2:00 a.m. on April 27, 1865, when the boat was seven miles above Memphis, her boilers exploded. Almost 1,200 people perished in the worst maritime disaster in United States history"-- No library descriptions found. |
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