In the days after the Civil War, the United States experienced what remains the worst maritime disaster in our history when the steamboat Sultana exploded and sank on the Mississippi River on April 27, 1865, at Memphis, killing 1,800—almost all of them former prisoners of war returning home from the South.
The Sultana, built in Cincinnati in 1863, was designed to carry only 376 people, including crew. Instead, loaded with POWs, it carried over 2,300 people on that spring day. Three boilers exploded at 2 in the morning, and the Sultana was in flames. The soldiers on board were weak from their captivity; many were unable to swim and faced the terrible choice of the raging fire aboard or the dark, cold currents of the flooding Mississippi River.
Since there was no accurate record of all those aboard, identifying the number of dead proved difficult. Historians say more than 190 Kentuckians died in the disaster. Among the dead was Union Major William Fidler of the 6th Kentucky Cavalry, the highest ranking former POW on the Sultana and the commander of the paroled POWs.
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