Around 2am, April 27, 1865, the steamboat Sultana exploded while passing north of Memphis, TN along the Mississippi River. The tragedy claimed over 1,500 passengers' lives, most of them recently paroled Union soldiers returning home from Confederate prison camps at the close of the Civil War. Largely forgotten, the Sultana disaster remains the worst shipwreck in American history.

Sultana.org has reopened!

SITE PURPOSE

The Sultana Disaster Online Museum & Archives is being created to: 

1.     Educate the general public about the Sultana Disaster and further promote the research and study of this greatly overlooked chapter in American history.

2.     Provide an online venue for descendants to display information about their descendants without web design knowledge.

3.     Create a clearinghouse of information that tracks the location and availability of Sultana related artifacts and other items that could eventually be included in an actual Sultana exhibit or museum.

4.     Become a frequent destination for anyone with an interest in the Sultana.

 

SEEKING SUBMISSIONS!

As always, I am seeking submissions of any kind related to the Sultana. Photos, antiques, newspaper clippings, official paperwork, and more. If you would like to contribute and help continue to build the museum, please click here for more information.

If you have any questions or comments, please contact me at sultana@gmail.com.

Slow in the making, this site will soon be up for an "official" opening... keep those submissions coming, and remember the Sultana!

-David Markland, webmaster/designer

sultana@gmail.com 

 

Help me build the site! Please contribute by adding to one or more of the following sections:

  • Suggest a link! Do you have or know of a Sultana related web site? Click here for it to be listed in the recommended links page.
  • Drop a note in our interactive guest book that features a map of the U.S. flagging the location of our visitors. Click on the button below:

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NEW!!! Recommended links!

NEW!!! A directory of all known Sultana markers and monuments. Click here to take a look... it's a surprisingly large list.

 

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