Over 2000 Union soldiers, travelers and also staff were crammed aboard the steamboat Sultana, accredited to bring 376. Graft, greed, congestion, a poorly kept watercraft, as well as the Mississippi River was inflamed with spring snowmelt conspired together to produce a calamity. On April 27, 1865, the watercraft's boilers exploded, creating the most awful maritime catastrophe in US history.
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Over 2000 Union soldiers, travelers and also staff were crammed aboard the steamboat Sultana, accredited to bring 376. Graft, greed, congestion, a poorly kept watercraft, as well as the Mississippi River was inflamed with spring snowmelt conspired together to produce a calamity. On April 27, 1865, the watercraft's boilers exploded, creating the most awful maritime catastrophe in US history.
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