The Sultana Disaster: The America’s Forgotten Tragedy That Claimed More Lives Than the Titanic
When we think of great American tragedies in April 1865, our minds immediately turn to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Yet, in the shadow of that national mourning, another cataclysmic event unfolded on the dark waters of the Mississippi River one that claimed more lives than the Titanic but has been largely lost to […]