Remember the Sultana
Over 2000 Union soldiers, travelers as well as team were packed aboard the steamboat Sultana, certified to bring 376. Graft, greed, overcrowding, an inadequately preserved boat, and also the Mississippi River was inflamed with spring snowmelt conspired with each other to create a disaster. On April 27, 1865, the boat's central heating boilers exploded, creating the worst maritime disaster in US background.
Released: 2018-03-01
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Documentary