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Photographer: Image Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Taken: April 26, 1865
Caption: Helena, Arkansas. April 27, 1865. Ill-fated Sultana
Additional Description: Photograph shows the overloaded steamboat Sultana on the Mississippi River the day before her boilers exploded and she sank on April 27th. The passengers included ca. 1,880 Union soldiers heading home at the end of the Civil War; more than 1,100 of these men died in the disaster. - Library of Congress
Submitted: November 18, 2014.
Database Locator Identification Number: p292561
File Size: 0.253 Megabytes

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