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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 2165603" data-attributes="member: 1246"><p>April 27, 1865</p><p> Days after the end of the Civil War, the worst maritime disaster in American history occurs when the steamboat <em>Sultana,</em> carrying 2,100 passengers, explodes and sinks in the Mississippi River, killing all but 400 of those aboard. The Mississippi, with its dikes and levees damaged by four years of war, stood at flood stage, and most of those who died were drowned in the surging river. All but 100 of those killed were Union veterans, and most were Yankee survivors of Andersonville and other brutal Confederate prisoner of war camps.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 2165603, member: 1246"] April 27, 1865 Days after the end of the Civil War, the worst maritime disaster in American history occurs when the steamboat [I]Sultana,[/I] carrying 2,100 passengers, explodes and sinks in the Mississippi River, killing all but 400 of those aboard. The Mississippi, with its dikes and levees damaged by four years of war, stood at flood stage, and most of those who died were drowned in the surging river. All but 100 of those killed were Union veterans, and most were Yankee survivors of Andersonville and other brutal Confederate prisoner of war camps. [/QUOTE]
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