The Sultana: America's Forgotten Deadliest Disaster

<p>They had survived the war, and the horror of the prison camps, and now they were finally going home — thousands of freed soldiers packed onto a single Mississippi riverboat. And then, in the dark before dawn, the boilers exploded. It remains the deadliest maritime disaster in American history. And almost no one remembers it.</p><p>This episode tells the story of the Sultana: a steamboat built for under four hundred, crammed with over two thousand emaciated former prisoners; the cheap boiler patch and the bribes that doomed her; and the bitter timing — days after Lincoln's assassination — that let a catastrophe larger than the Titanic slip out of the nation's memory.</p><p>New dark story every day. Follow Six Feet of History wherever you listen.</p><p>#History #DarkHistory #HistoryPodcast #TrueHistory #Disaster / #Sultana #CivilWar #ForgottenHistory #Mississippi #SixFeetOfHistory</p><p>Sultana, Sultana disaster, Mississippi River, steamboat explosion, Civil War, prisoners of war, Andersonville, 1865, maritime disaster, dark history, history podcast, forgotten history, boiler explosion, Memphis, true history, deadliest disaster, Union soldiers, corruption, Six Feet of History, overcrowding</p>