MARION, Ark. — The Sultana Disaster Museum in Marion recently received a visit from the descendants of Private William Henry Windsor, who survived the explosion of the Sultana steamboat in April 1865 on the Mississippi River.
Private Windsor was among the POWs at Castle Morgan, a Confederate prison camp in Cahaba, Ala. The POWs faced poor conditions at the camp, including a flood on March 1, 1865. According to reports, most of the men spent several days standing in knee deep or waist deep water, surviving only on crackers.
Windsor was transferred to Camp Fisk in Vicksburg, Miss., before boarding the Sultana. Windsor survived the explosion, which killed about 1,200 people. He was rescued by the steamer Pocahontas and recovered at the Washington Hospital in Memphis…