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Norman Shaw illustrates the story of the Sultana, the worst U.S. maritime disaster


Thursday night, the Knoxville History Project hosted Norman Shaw to talk about the Sultana disaster over Zoom.
Paul James, the development director for the Knoxville History Project, introduced Shaw, and spoke briefly about the mission of the project.
“Our mission is to research and promote the history and culture of Knoxville,” James said.
Shaw is a retired attorney and well-known Civil War historian, as well as a founder of Knoxville’s Civil War Round Table and of the Association of Sultana Descendants and Friends.
The worst maritime disaster in U.S. history, the Sultana disaster in 1856, left over 1,100 dead. It was caused most directly by a boiler explosion that wasn t fixed properly, and the crowdedness of the ship did not allow for many survivors. ....

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U.S. Civil War public health lessons could have blunted Covid-19


By Jonathan S. Jones April 18, 2021Reprints
Andersonville was a notoriously deadly Confederate prisoner-of-war camp during the Civil War located in a Georgia swamp. A quarter of the prison population died of diseases like dysentery, chronic diarrhea, and typhoid.
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As the U.S. approaches 600,000 deaths from Covid-19, it is hard to fathom that this calamity pales in comparison to America’s worst outbreak of epidemic diseases during and just after the Civil War.
From smallpox and measles to dysentery and typhoid, the Civil War, which lasted from 1861 to 1865, triggered an explosion of deadly epidemics on a scale never seen in the U.S., before or since. A million sick soldiers, newly emancipated ex-slaves, families caught in the crossfire, and hungry refugees died during the war, about 3% of the U.S. population. Two-thirds of these deaths were from disease. For comparison, it would take nearly 10 million Americans deaths from Cov ....

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