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<br />until he had given the intro to the song i had never heard of the Sultana and what happened on it.
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It was great to hear the music of Tom Hook and he is a very nice guy, as well.
DW posted a URL, but, briefly, the Sultana was a steamboat that was taking Union soldiers that were released from Rebel Prisons, after the war, home. The riverboat was overloaded with something like 2000 +/- troops. The boilers exploded and the riverboat sank and something like 1700 soldiers drowned.
<b><font color="gold">Ernie Sands
LtGen, CO XXIII Corps, AoO
President, Colonial Campaigns Club
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