The Sultana Disaster: America's Deadliest Shipwreck — Worse Than the Titanic

At 2 AM on April 27, 1865, a Mississippi steamboat packed with over 2,000 freed Union prisoners exploded and burned — the deadliest shipwreck in American history. Within a week, the entire nation had forgotten it ever happened. This is the story of the Sultana: the doomed boat, the men who survived Andersonville only to die within sight of home, the greed that overloaded her, and the strange twist of timing — John Wilkes Booth was killed the day before — that erased America's worst maritime disaster from history. CHAPTERS: 00:00 Two in the Morning 01:42 The Boat 02:59 The Men 04:20 The Deal 05:42 The Voyage 07:04 That Night 08:31 Erased from History Subscribe to Yestoria for a new story from the past every week. #Yestoria #HistoryDocumentary #Sultana #CivilWar #Shipwreck #ForgottenHistory #AmericanHistory #WorldHistory --- Made with AI. All narratives are based on historical research. Music: "Lost Frontier" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Sources: Wikipedia, "Sultana (steamboat)"; American Battlefield Trust, "The Sultana Disaster"; Sultana Disaster Museum (sultanadisastermuseum.org); NAFI/History.com; Encyclopedia of Arkansas; Alan Huffman, Sultana (2009); Gene Eric Salecker, Disaster on the Mississippi (1996).