The steamboat General Wayne ... On the 10th of the same month the Picayune had the following: The Sultana, Capt. TUFTS, arrived yesterday, having made the trip from this city to Louisville ...

One such steamboat, the Sultana, left Vicksburg on April 24 to carry soldiers up to Cairo, Illinois. Tragically, just three days later, the boat caught fire and more than 2000 passengers had an ...

The Sultana steamboat disaster in 1865, at the end of the Civil War, has been called America's worst maritime disaster. With an estimated loss of up to 1,800 soldiers who were returning home on ...

Students watch an HDSI episode about the worst maritime disaster in United States history, the explosion of the Sultana steamboat in 1865. It was April of 1865. The Civil War was newly ended ...