U.S. STEAMER SULTANA

27 April 1865

(Mississippi River near Memphis)

OR-Series I, Volume XLVIII, Chapter LX, Pg 210

Union Forces

1,866 Exchanged Federal Prisoners

(The U.S. Sultana was chartered to take exchanged Fedral prisoners

North from Vicksburg . Near Memphis she blew up due to faulty boilers.

She carried approximately 1,866 exchanged soldiers, Of this 1,101

were lost. Total loss including crew and other passengers was 1,238)

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