Disunion: The Sinking of the Sultana

As John Wilkes Booth stepped into President Lincoln’s booth at Ford’s Theater...Union prisoners of war were heading home.... 2,100 of those soldiers, many sick, many barefoot, boarded the wooden side-wheeler steamboat Sultana....
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