Destruction of the Steamboat Sultana

What does Crown Hill Cemetery have to do with 2:00 in the morning of April 27, 1865 and the explosion of the steamboat Sultana ? Of the almost 2,000 recently released Union soldiers, ex-POWs from the Confederate prisons of Andersonville, GA and Cahaba, AL on board that day, two are buried in Crown Hill Cemetery. Come and hear author Gene Eric Salecker tell the amazing story of the steamboat Sultana - a story that includes greed and corruption in the overcrowding of a boat legally registered to carry only 376 people, and outright courage and survival among the many men, women, and children that were aboard the Sultana on that terrible morning.

*Location of Speaker TBD - will be in our Waiting Station or Gothic Chapel, located at 3402 Blvd. Place, Indpls. Location will be updated as soon as confirmed.