1865. Worse Than Titanic. Forgotten By History.

Added: 2026-05-28

[00:00:00]1865, the night it burned.

[00:00:03]Mississippi River.

[00:00:05]The war was over. Soldiers were [music] going home. A ship waited at the dock, the Sultana.

[00:00:11]Built for 376.

[00:00:14]That night, it carried 2,400. [music] Then, at 2:00 a.m., three boilers exploded at once.

[00:00:22]The ship became a fireball.

[00:00:25]People burned. People drowned.

[00:00:27]People froze in the dark water.

[00:00:30]1,800 [music] died. Worse than Titanic.

[00:00:34]And almost no [music] one remembers its name.

[00:00:37]The Sultana.