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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (43346)	4/21/2004 10:13:58 AM
From: T L Comiskey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

civilwarstlouis.com Civil Wars.......... in general.. NOT ...a Good Idea, home.rochester.rr.com Sabotage of the Sultana... "Seven miles out of Memphis, at 2:00 a.m. on April 27, 1865, the steamer Sultana chugged northward loaded with over twenty-three hundred people, most of them Union soldiers returning home from southern prison camps. Without warning, an explosion ripped through the boilers, scalding steam burst out, and a shower of flaming coal shot upward into the night, raining down on the crowded boat, which in moments was engulfed in flames. Over seventeen hundred people died, making the destruction of the Sultana a maritime disaster worse than the sinking of the Titanic." excerpt from "The Sultana: A Case for Sabotage" available in issue 5.1 of North & South magazine