Causing roughly 1,800 deaths, the explosion of the Sultana on April 27, 1865, is America’s worst maritime disaster. This photo shows the boat leaving Memphis with approximately 2,400 passengers, mostly Union soldiers freed from Confederate prisons. Remnants of the steamboat sank on the Arkansas side of the river and are now buried under soybean fields in Crittenden County.
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