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Historical group works to memorialize Sultana shipwreck with museum, coins
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March 30, 2023March 30, 2023City News

Historical group works to memorialize Sultana shipwreck with museum, coins

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The Sultana, loaded down with excess passengers. Courtesy | Facebook The Sultana Historical Preservation Society is campaigning to open a museum in Marion, Arkansas and dedicate a commemorative coin to the 1865 Sultana shipwreck. It was the deadliest maritime disaster in United States history and killed nearly 1,200 people, including 67 Civil War soldiers from...

The sinking of the Sultana: America’s greatest maritime disaster
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March 31, 2022July 12, 2022Big Grid - Home, Features, Homepage - Features

The sinking of the Sultana: America’s greatest maritime disaster

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For Hillsdale Union soldiers riding the Sultana, a steamship headed for Cairo, Illinois, the agonies of the Civil war seemed to be over — that is, until the Sultana exploded. On April 24, 1865, over 2,200 Union soldiers, including the Hillsdale County 18th Michigan Infantry, boarded the Sultana after having been released as prisoners of...