Why Did America's Worst Maritime Disaster Get Buried? SS Sultana | Disaster Documentary

Описание: Why Did America's Worst Maritime Disaster Get Buried? SS Sultana | Disaster Documentary

This channel creates in-depth documentary-style videos about forgotten American disasters that changed history. We focus on lesser-known tragic events with heartbreaking human stories, government negligence, and historical injustices that most Americans have never heard about.
Target audience: History enthusiasts, American Civil War buffs, documentary viewers, people interested in maritime disasters, forgotten history, tragic irony, and untold American stories that reveal how greed and negligence cost lives.

SS SULTANA - THEY SURVIVED THE WAR, BUT DIED GOING HOME
April 27th, 1865. The SS Sultana - a steamboat designed for 376 people - is loaded with 2,400 passengers.
Most of them are Union soldiers. Prisoners of war who survived the Civil War and are finally going home.
The war just ended two weeks ago. They survived Confederate prison camps - Andersonville, Cahaba - hellholes where thousands died of disease, starvation, and abuse.
They survived all of that. Now they're just days from home. From their families. From freedom.
At 2:00 AM, the Sultana's boilers explode. The steamboat erupts in flames and sinks.
1,800 people die. More than died on the Titanic.

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