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Jerry Potter thought he knew everything there was to know about the Civil War in West Tennessee. He was a history major at UT Martin and had extensively researched the
In the pre-dawn hours of April 27, 1865, the steamboat Sultana departed Memphis and was heading north on the Mississippi River, overcrowded with Union Army soldiers freed from prisoner of war camps, when its boilers exploded, setting the vessel on fire.