April 27, 1865, America’s greatest maritime disaster
From the category archives:
Did anyone else know that there was a large Sultana monument in Alliance, OH? Neither did I… and neither did veteran and history buff Jim Peters, who, up until he stumbled across the Alliance monument, had never even heard of the Sultana…
Peters didn’t learn of it until three years ago when he found a weather-beaten [...]
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Erected July 4, 1912. The names of over 365 Tennessee soldiers who were part of the disaster are chiseled into this marble monument along with a depiction of a riverboat and the inscription:
In memory of the men who were on the Sultana, that was destroyed April 27, 1865 by explosion on the Mississippi near [...]
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Part of the city’s National Steamboat Monument, this Sultana plaque is engraved in metal and shows a photo of the ship’s final and most famous photograph (the original copy of this photo is supposedly in the local library). The Sultana, by the way, was built only a few blocks away.
Mehring Way near Broadway, Cincinnati, OH
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Dedicated in April 2000. The Arkansas Daughters of the American Revolution erected a marker in this small town across from Memphis, TN. Nearby are where the remains of the Sultana are buried beneath a soy bean field. Marion also shares a few hometown heroes who helped rescue and house victims of the Sultana disaster.
City Hall, [...]
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One of the two Memphis markers for the Sultana is tucked away in a corner of the nearly inaccessible Elmwood Cemetery. On my visit in April, 2002, I was told by the grounds management that graves of some of the disaster’s civilian victims would be found nearby, but I had no luck locating them. On [...]
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Dedicated to the men of the Indiana 9th Cavalry, 121st Regiment, especially those who were on board the Sultana, 55 of whom perished in the disaster.
photo courtesy Mark Davis, Hartford City, IN
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One of two markers in Mansfield, this beautiful plaque was made by renowned sculptor Michael Kraus, who is worked on the Civil War era film Cold Mountain. Dedicated May 27, 2002 and honoring all the men from Richland county who suffered aboard the Sultana, is installed outside the entrance of the Mansfield Memorial Museum.
…thanks to Kent Dorr, [...]
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Dedicated November 11, 2001. Erected to honor the 280 Michigan men – 75 from the Hillsdale area – who died on the Sultana.
The story of how this memorial was meticulously crafted can be found here.
The memorial reads:
SULTANA
Dedicated to the memory of the 280 Michigan Civil War soldiers who lost their lives in America’s worst maritime [...]
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This marker is dedicated in honor of the men from the 102nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry and was erected November 10th, 2001.
South Park, Mansfield, MI
info courtesy Kent Dorr, McLaughlin Camp #12 SUVCW, photo by silverquill via Waymarking.com (more pics available there).
Text of marker reads:
In memory of the 73 men of the 102nd OVI who died as a [...]
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Brother’s Christopher and Timothy Heather formed the Cincinnati Sultana Association to raise $700 (with matching funds) to erect this marker as part of Ohio’s Bicentennial.
The Cincinatti Enquirer wrote about their efforts.
photo courtest Gene Shields.
Full text of marker:
OHIO HISTORICAL MARKER
1999
THE SULTANA
In 1862, less than a mile upriver from this marker, the John Lithoberry
Shipyard in Cincinnati constructed [...]
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