The steamboat Sultana, carrying twenty-three hundred passengers,…

April 1865 CE

The steamboat Sultana, carrying twenty-three hundred passengers, explodes and sinks in the Mississippi River near Memphis, Tennessee, on April 27, 1865, killing seventeen hundred, most of whom are Union survivors of the Andersonville Prison.

This disaster is overshadowed in the press by other recent events: John Wilkes Booth, President Lincoln's assassin, had been killed the day before.

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Memphis Shelby Tennessee United States View →

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Tennessee, State of (U.S.A.) View → United States of America (US, USA) (Washington DC) View → Confederate States of America (C.S.A.) View →

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American Civil War (War between the States, War of the Rebellion, War of Secession, War for Southern Independence) View → American Civil War & Reconstruction; 1864 through 1875 View →

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