This 1865 steamboat explosion killed more Americans than the Titanic, but history barely mentions it

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Sultana Steamboat Explosion (1865)

April 27, 1865.

Union soldiers who had survived Confederate prison camps were finally heading home when their steamboat exploded on the Mississippi River…

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