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The Sultana Steamboat Disaster

Published: Nov. 13, 2020, 6 p.m.

On April 27th, 1865, just weeks after the end of the American Civil War, a steamboat carrying former Union prisoners of war sailed up the Mississippi River from Vicksburg. 

At 2 am, the boilers on the steamship exploded, killing 1800 people in what is still the largest maritime disaster in US history. 

Learn more about the largest forgotten Sultana Steamboat Disaster on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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