An engraving of the Sultana explosion, published in Harpers Weekly, May 20, 1865.An estimated 1,800 people died in the explosion and ensuing fire — more than died in the sinking of the Titanic.

Jerry O. Potter, author of The Sultana Tragedy tells Linda Wertheimer about the worst maritime disaster in U.S. history, the Apr. 27, 1865 explosion and sinking of the grossly overloaded steamboat ...

Show the video" "The Mystery of the Sultana: Reveal." Give students an opportunity to answer the questions in Part 3 of the “Evaluating Conflicting Evidence” reproducible independently.

And yet, the explosion and sinking of the Mississippi riverboat Sultana was almost completely forgotten. Sultana measured 260 feet, with a beam of 42 feet. Four high-pressure boilers powered her ...

The Sultana. Author Alan Huffman recounted the worst maritime disaster in U.S. history, the sinking of the steamboat Sultana that was transporting 2,400 Union soldiers on the Mississippi River on ...

The museum, near Marion's stately Crittenden County Courthouse, makes clear the human dimensions of the sinking. It also supplies the background that led to the packing of 2,200 or more men (and a ...

In the pre-dawn hours of April 27, 1865, the steamboat Sultana departed Memphis and was heading north on the Mississippi River, overcrowded with Union Army soldiers freed from prisoner of war ...