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.

• Mark MarshallDirector
• Brendan HedgesWriter
• Mike MarshallDirector
• Mark MarshallWriter

• Sean AstinNarrator
• Mackenzie AstinCaptain J. Walter Elliott / Private George Clarkson (voice)
• Jim BeaverJoseph Taylor Elliott / First Engineering Officer Nathaniel Wintringer (voice)
• Bob BergenCaptain Louis Rosché / Pleasant Marion Keeble (voice)
• Leah Ann CevoliEliza Frances 'Fanny' Andrews (voice)
• Jim CummingsSergeant Alexander C. Brown / Sergeant William Fies (voice)
• Matthew Jayson CwernLieutenant John Clark Ely / Private William Wendt (voice) (as Matt Jayson)