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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 April 1865, a steamer built in Cincinnati and loaded with Civil War prisoners exploded, killing around 2,000 people.
On April 27, 1865, the steamboat Sultana was heading upstream on the Mississippi River. It was carrying an estimated 2,100 people, most of them Union prisoners on their way home
The reason the Sultana is unknown to many people today is that it occurred in the busiest “news month” in American history.
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