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 ...
In the early hours of April 27, 1865, mere days after the end of the Civil War, the Sultana — a 260-foot-long wooden steamboat — burst into flames along the Mississippi River. Built in ...
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 ...