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         SULTANA SINKS! 
         1,500+ Feared Lost 

      Clearly overloaded, this is the last known photo of the Sultana, taken the 
      afternoon before the tragedy when the steamer was taking on coal at 
      Helena, Arkansas.THAT'S HOW THE newspaper headlines should have read in 
      the days immediately following the Sultana's explosion on the Mississippi 
      River early on the morning of April 27, 1865. After all, well over 1,500 
      paroled Union soldiers, crewmen and passengers lost their lives in the 
      cold, muddy waters that spring morning.
      Unfortunately, a war-torn and weary nation still was reeling from 
      President Lincoln's shocking assasination just two weeks earlier and the 
      Eastern-established newspapers relegated the sad story to internal pages. 
      However, it was-----and remains even today-----America's worst-ever 
      maritime disaster.
      The actual number of passengers aboard the Sultana will likely always be 
      unclear due to poor record keeping at the time of boarding, but scholars 
      today believe that between 2,200 and 2,300 were probably aboard the 
      ill-fated steamer when she exploded nine miles north of Memphis, Tennessee 
      on the Mississippi River.
       
      Of the paroled Union soldiers aboard the Sultana, nearly three out of four 
      hailed from the states of Ohio, Tennessee, or Indiana, but soldiers from 
      Michigan, Kentucky, West Virginia, Illinois, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Missouri, 
      Nebraska and even Alabama were also aboard!
      Please use the following search tool to see if you had an ancestor or 
      relative aboard the Sultana...  Search for a Sultana 
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            Also don't miss the fascinating new analysis of what Union Regiments 
            were most frequently represented aboard the steamship Sultana on 
            April 27th, 1865!


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