Ask most Americans to name the worst maritime disaster in United States history, and they’d likely point to the Titanic. And they’d be wrong. What if I told you that this ill-fated ship isn’t resting at the bottom of an ocean, but buried a little over thirty feet beneath the soil of a soybean field near Marion, Arkansas? This is the tragic tale of the Sultana, a steamboat that exploded on the Mississippi River in 1865, claiming an estimated 1,800+ lives — America’s deadliest maritime disaster, surpassing even the Titanic. Overcrowded with over 2,500 passengers, driven by greed and neglect, its story faded amid the Civil War’s end. Was it an accident, or Confederate sabotage? Unearth the mystery buried in Arkansas soil.
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