Remember the Sultana
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1hr
36mins
Directed by
Mark Marshall,
Jim Michaels,
Matthew C. Egan,
Mike Marshall
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Starring
Sean Astin,
Mackenzie Astin,
Jim Beaver,
Bob Bergen
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Over 2000 Union soldiers, passengers and crew were crammed aboard the steamboat Sultana, licensed to carry 376. Graft, greed, overcrowding, a poorly maintained boat, and the Mississippi River was swollen with spring snowmelt conspired together to create a disaster. On April 27, 1865, the boat’s boilers exploded, causing the worst maritime disaster in US history.
