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Remember the Sultana

Over 2000 Union soldiers, guests as well as crew were packed aboard the boat Sultana, certified to lug 376. Graft, greed, congestion, a poorly maintained boat, and also the Mississippi River was swollen with springtime snowmelt conspired together to develop a calamity. On April 27, 1865, the boat's boilers exploded, triggering the most awful maritime disaster in US background.

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