Ill-fated 'Sultana,' Helena,Arkansas,April 27,1865,Steamboat,Mississippi River

Title: Ill-fated 'Sultana,' Helena, Arkansas, April 27, 1865
Date Created/Published: [photographed before1865 April 27, printed later]
Summary: Photograph shows the overloaded steamboat Sultana on the Mississippi River the day before her boilers exploded and she sank on April 27th. The passengers included ca. 1,880 Union soldiers heading home at the end of the Civil War; more than 1,100 of these men died in the disaster.
Notes:
The photograph is very grainy. The Library printed this image from a glass copy negative (now broken), which is a copy of a photo from unidentified source.
Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
Title from item.
Glass copy negative is not available: LC-B818-10035
Subjects:
Sultana (Steamboat)--1860-1870.
Steamboats--Mississippi River--1860-1870.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Union--Military personnel.
Photographic prints--1860-1910.
Bookmark /2003690791/
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