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The Forgotten Inferno: How 1,164 Men Died on the Sultana
The Forgotten Inferno: How 1,164 Men Died on the Sultana
Everyone thought they were finally going home: a photo taken April 26, 1865 shows a steamboat built for 376 men packed with 2,127 souls, and by the next night more than 1,000 were dead - how did a cracked boiler, a paid overloading, and the timing of Lincoln’s death conspire to erase this disaster from public memory?
In this episode, we tell what happened on the Sultana, how decisions by military and ship officers led to the worst maritime disaster in American history, and why the nation turned its attention elsewhere; could a single…
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