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

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