The Forgotten Inferno: The Sinking of the Sultana

n 1865, just weeks after the Civil War ended, over 2,400 Union soldiers — freshly freed from Confederate prison camps — boarded the Sultana, a Mississippi River steamboat meant to carry only 376.

Greed and negligence set the stage.
A faulty boiler. A bribed official.
And at 2 a.m., a fiery explosion ripped the vessel apart.

More than 1,200 men died — the worst maritime disaster in U.S. history.

So why don’t we learn about it in school?

Because the nation buried the truth.
This is the story they didn’t want told.

#ThreeMinutemen brings it back to light — in under 3 minutes.

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