Over 2000 Union soldiers, passengers and team were stuffed aboard the steamboat Sultana, licensed to lug 376. Graft, greed, congestion, a badly preserved watercraft, as well as the Mississippi River was inflamed with springtime snowmelt conspired together to develop a catastrophe. On April 27, 1865, the boat's central heating boilers blew up, triggering the most awful maritime disaster in US history.
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Over 2000 Union soldiers, passengers and team were stuffed aboard the steamboat Sultana, licensed to lug 376. Graft, greed, congestion, a badly preserved watercraft, as well as the Mississippi River was inflamed with springtime snowmelt conspired together to develop a catastrophe. On April 27, 1865, the boat's central heating boilers blew up, triggering the most awful maritime disaster in US history.
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