Sultana: Titanic of the Mississippi

The description is right more people died on this ship then the Titanic many people fail to realize that

Interesting to learn of this tragic event - had to turn the sound down tho, what an awflu song!

My great-great grandfather Emanuel Yeisley was one of the few who survived this disaster. He had recently been released from the Cahaba prison in Alabama. He had to fight someone for a piece of wood to hang onto as he couldn't swim. Had he perished, hundreds of his descendants wouldn't have been born.

I just finished reading Alan Huffman's Sultana, fascinating bit of History, It was overshadowed by Lincoln's Assassination and the end of the Civil War, but it was the worst maritime disaster in the country

A rebel named Laudon spent the War destroying riverboats on the Miss. After the War he confessed to putting a coal bomb onto the Sultana. History Ch. has a documentary on it.

in the group pic at 1:35 the man with a big beard in the mid. of the front row is my great great great grandfather. when the sultana blew up he was completely deafend. he lived in knoxville tn, but faught for the north. he had been in the cahaba (spelled bad) prison camp. a black family pulled him from the water and nursed him back to health. the north had already told the relatives that he was dead. though he walked all the way home alive but deaf

great story!

That's an amazing story.

Is Titanic forgotten? But, yes they should not be forgotten

If you've seen the movie Dej'a Vu, the explosion of the Sultana was about like the explosion of the Ferry. Many people would have died in the first few seconds.