Sultana Tragedy
On April 27, 1865 the Sultana, a 260 foot, wooden-hulled, steamboat exploded, burned, and sank on the Mississippi River near Memphis, Tennessee. Approximately 2400 people were on board, six times the ship's legal limit. More than 1700 lives were lost in the disaster. Most were Union soldiers on their way home from Confederate prison camps. Among the 357 Ohioans lost were these 101 men from Richland County.
McLaughlin's Squadron Cavalry
John L. Crawford • Hosea Donald • John H. Irvine • Robert Jesson
Isaac Peterson • Eli Finley Provines • John W. Steinaur • Charles B. Tidball
John Wagner • Samuel W. Wescott
15th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Francis M. Carter • Charles W. Myers
64th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Hugh W. Bratton • Samuel Brink • Thomas Brink • Daniel McKinley
John Ryan • John Stuckey • Joseph Wagner
Robert White • Casper Zimmer
65th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
John Bishlen • Amos W. Fairchild • David Geeseman •
Edgar W. Gregory
David Grubaugh • John Hudson • Thomas Kelley • Charles H. Nickerson
102nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Henry Bahl • Adam Bahn Jr. • John Baker • John Baney
Amos Beal • Jacob Bierly • Amos Brenizer •
David T. Brenizer
John H. Burt • John Cassel Jr. • Joseph B. F. Corts •
Elias Couter
William Crow • John W. Divelbiss • William Earick • David Fabra
Daniel Fisher Jr.
Lysander L. Flint • David Grice • James Watt Guard
Jacob Guib • George L. Hall • Manuel Harnly • Gideon Harrington
John F. Hartman • Wesley Henderson • Phillip L. Holton • William C. Hornberger
Jonas Huntsberger • Jacob Irons • Dixon W. Johns
William Keeler
Henry Krebbs • Reuben Leidig • John McCrea • Luther McGinnis
Joseph McKelvey • James M. Mercer • Leander Merchand • Joseph R. Mitchell
Benjamin Musser • Charles P. Ogden • Godfrey H. Omweg • Simon Oyster
Simon P. Price
Lucius Remington • Reuben H. Richards • Jacob S. Rose
John Schrader • George Shepperly • Charles W. Shoup •
Henry Sidle
James Simons • Jeremiah Singer • Ezra K. Sleggle •
Cyrus Smith
George P. Steinmetz • Samuel S. Stephens • David G. Stine • Samuel Strawsbaugh
Frederick Stuff • Washington W. Teeters • Robert Torbet • George W. Uhlich
James Underwood • Benjamin F. Wade • Joseph Wells •
Miles Wells
Daniel Wheeler • James T. Williams • William W. Willis • Thomas Jefferson Wynn
May their souls rest in peace
Marker is on Park Avenue West (Ohio Route 430), on the right when traveling west.
Courtesy hmdb.org
