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Perhaps the most famous of all Sultana images, this photograph of the clearly overcrowded steamboat was taken in Helena, Arkansas, little more than a day before the disaster.

When the men aboard the steamer heard that a photographer was preparing to take the photo, many rushed over to try to get in frame, nearly capsizing the ship.

Tennessee Sultana Survivors Association

Immediately after the disaster many of the survivors made an effort to keep in touch. This photo was taken at a reunion of soldiers in the Knoxville area from sometime around the turn of the century.

Private Nicholas R. Russell

Co. A, 3rd TN Cavalry

survivor

(anonymous contributor)

Privates Gilford Canon & Isaac Anderson Morison

Co. L, 3rd TN Cavalry

Gilford, at left, was 21 when he died from burns the day after the disaster. Isaac, at right, was only six days from turning 18 when he drowned

(courtesy Barbara Keith, great niece, Chattanooga, TN)

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