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Death on the Dark River: The Story of the Sultana Disaster in 1865 - Offers information about the disaster and one of its survivors, Emanuel Hush Yeisley.
National Geographic: Remembering Sultana - Article by Stephen Ambrose describing the disaster in which more than 1,700 Union soldiers and POWs died when three of the Sultana's four boilers exploded.
Sabotage of the Sultana... - Offers arguments by D. H. Rule and Gene Eric Salecker for and against Rule's 2002 argument that Sultana explosion was due to sabotage.
Sultana Disaster Online Museum & Archives - Provides information, photographs, and contemporary accounts of the worst shipwreck in American history.
Wikipedia: Sultana (Steamboat) - Hyperlinked article devoted to the Mississippi River paddlewheeler which was destroyed in an explosion on April 27, 1865, the greatest maritime disaster in United States history.

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