Remember the Sultana
Over 2000 Union soldiers, passengers as well as staff were stuffed aboard the steamboat Sultana, certified to bring 376. Graft, greed, congestion, a badly maintained boat, and also the Mississippi River was swollen with springtime snowmelt conspired with each other to produce a disaster. On April 27, 1865, the watercraft's boilers blew up, creating the most awful maritime catastrophe in United States background.
Released: 2018-03-01
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