Remember the Sultana

Over 2000 Union soldiers, passengers and crew were crammed aboard the steamboat Sultana, licensed to carry 376. Graft, greed, overcrowding, a poorly maintained boat, and the Mississippi River was swollen with spring snowmelt conspired together to create a disaster. On April 27, 1865, the boat’s boilers exploded, causing the worst maritime disaster in US history.

Top Cast

Sean Astin

Narrator

Mackenzie Astin

Captain J. Walter Elliott / Private George Clarkson (voice)

Jim Beaver

Joseph Taylor Elliott / First Engineering Officer Nathaniel Wintringer (voice)

Bob Bergen

Captain Louis Rosché / Pleasant Marion Keeble (voice)

Leah Ann Cevoli

Eliza Frances 'Fanny' Andrews (voice)