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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26VO_the-sultana-tragedy_Marion-AR.html
On April 27, 1865, the steamboat Sultana exploded on the Mississippi River. She was heading north, dangerously overloaded with some 2,200 passengers, most of them freed Union prisoners of war from the Andersonville and Cahaba camps. A weakened boi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26VL_the-loss-of-the-sultana_Marion-AR.html
Early on April 27, 1865, the overcrowded steamboat Sultana exploded on the Mississippi River near Marion, Arkansas. The vast majority of the Sultana's passengers, believed to number over 2000, were Federal soldiers, recently released from Confeder…