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Sultana disaster site
1865
Mississippi River, near Memphis
Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
A steamboat licensed for 376 was carrying more than 2,100 released Union prisoners when its boilers burst in April 1865, killing roughly 1,170. The worst maritime disaster in American history, buried in the news by Lincoln's assassination.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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