What have been the most interesting historic resources or artifacts that you have come across in your research in the Industrialization Newspaper? What makes them stand out to you?
This book called "Loss of the Sultana and remnances of it's survivors
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What have been the most interesting stories that you have found in your research in the Industrialization Newspaper project?
The whole story of the sultana is interesting how it docked in Vicksburg to get one of it's boilers fixed, and how 1,965 Union soldiers who had just been released from rebel prisons got on board over crowding the boat, and how after it sank people blamed the boiler being improperly fixed, but investigators found the boiler in good condition in the wrecakge.
What new opinions or ideas have you developed as you processed these stories and artifacts?
A new Idea I learned from one reading is that the disaster could have been sabotage and someone could have sank the sultana on purpose to kill the union soldiers
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