this information was sent to another list and i thought it might be of interes to lawrence co. civil war researchers. find great joy in your work! allen On the evening of (early morning) April 27, 1865 the SULTANA, a Stamship, was returning released prisonors from Cahaba, Anersonville and other  Rebel prisons to Indiana, Ohio and other states in the  central northwest. The shp designed o safely hold 380 passengers and crew was overloaded to approximately 2200-2300 persons. At 2 AM just north of Memphis the oiler exploded, destoying the ship, and killing over 1700 persons. Th perons from Indiana Units have een extracted, and the data is located here. http://www.rootsweb.com/~inmontgo/mil/extractindiana-sultana.html -- Jeffery  Scism, http://blacksheep.rootsweb.com/ InternationalBlacksheep Society of Genealogists Homepages: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~scismfam/    \_/      --(_)--    / \     |>  v-v-v-v   |>    ,   ,  /_\  |     |  /_\    |\_/|  | |'''''''''''| |          |\    (q p),-| | ||  _  || | |'-._       ))     \_/_(/| |    |#|    | | )  '-.___//   --w-w---'-'----'-'----'-'----------'-----------