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In 1865, the steamboat Sultana, a Mississippi River side-wheel boat, was destroyed in an boiler explosion and fire not far upstream of Memphis, TN. The majority of the passengers, an estimated 1,700 out of 2,400, died either in the explosion, in the resultant fire or in the cold, flooded Mississippi River. It remains the greatest maritime disaster in United States history. #Sultana

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In 1865, the steamer Sultana, carrying freed Union prisoners of war, exploded on the Mississippi River near Memphis, TN; death toll estimates vary from 1,500 to 2,000. #Sultana

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