"History Detectives" Share the Story of the Sultana

The side-wheeler was overloaded with former Union soldiers heading home from Confederate prisoner-of-war camps in Andersonville, GA and Cahaba, AL. They had boarded the ship in Vicksburg where the Sultana's boiler had been patched. The riverboat stopped briefly at the Cobblestone Landing in Memphis and crossed the River to Hopewell, AR before the explosion on April 27, 1865.
PBS "History Detectives" investigate the disaster, in the 1st episode of their new series. Click HERE to watch online. Free.
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