. . MONUMENT TO THE SIXTH OHIO HAT I I- Erected by the Sute of Ohio National Military Park, 8o8 THE STEAMBOAT HORROR. tenant, remained,cers was left. In the squadron not one of the original oflS THE SULTANA DISASTER. Nothing in the history ofsteam navigation equals in hor-ror the explosion and burning ofthe steamer Sultana on the Mis-sissippi river, soon after mid-night, on the morning of April27th, 1865. The close of thewar had opened the doors of thesouthern prisons and a multitudeof Union soldiers, who had formonth

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. . MONUMENT TO THE SIXTH OHIO HAT I I- Erected by the Sute of Ohio National Military Park, 8o8 THE STEAMBOAT HORROR. tenant, remained,cers was left. In the squadron not one of the original oflS THE SULTANA DISASTER. Nothing in the history ofsteam navigation equals in hor-ror the explosion and burning ofthe steamer Sultana on the Mis-sissippi river, soon after mid-night, on the morning of April27th, 1865. The close of thewar had opened the doors of thesouthern prisons and a multitudeof Union soldiers, who had formonths suffered the tortures ofconfinement, had been sent toVicksburg, Mississippi, for trans-portation northward. Morethan twenty-two hundred.

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