Episode 260: The SS Sultana disaster - Part One

On a cold April night in 1865, the calm across the waters of the Mississippi River was shattered by a sudden explosion - one which destroyed a steamboat and most of the Confederate POWs crowded on its decks.

Videos:

• Remember the Sultana
• The History Channel: The Sultana
• Part-Time Explorer: America's Worst Shipwreck

Articles and books:

• Sultana: Surviving the Civil War, Prison, and the Worst Maritime Disaster in American History, by Alan Huffman
• Knoxville, TN: S.S. Sultana Memorial
• Appomattox Court House: The Surrender Meeting
• American Battlefield Trust: The Sultana Disaster
• The Sultana Disaster Museum
• Toledo Blade: The Sinking of the Sultana