Documentary History
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.
Directed by
Mark Marshall, Mike Marshall
Written by
Mark Marshall, Brendan Hedges
Sean Astin
Narrator
Jim Beaver
Joseph Taylor Elliott / First Engineering Officer Nathaniel Wintringer (voice)
Mackenzie Astin
Captain J. Walter Elliott / Private George Clarkson (voice)
Bob Bergen
Captain Louis Rosché / Pleasant Marion Keeble (voice)
Jim Cummings
Sergeant Alexander C. Brown / Sergeant William Fies (voice)
Leah Ann Cevoli
Eliza Frances 'Fanny' Andrews (voice)
Matthew Jayson Cwern
Lieutenant John Clark Ely / Private William Wendt (voice) (as Matt Jayson)

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