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    Crown Hill Speaker Series: Destruction of the Steamboat Sultana

    Tuesday, June 10, 2025

    6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

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    Crown Hill Funeral Home and Cemetery

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    06/10/2025 06:00 PM 06/10/2025 07:00 PM America/Anguilla Crown Hill Speaker Series: Destruction of the Steamboat Sultana What connection does Crown Hill Cemetery have with the morning of April 27, 1865, and the explosion of the steamboat Sultana? Of the 2,000 Union soldiers released from the Confederate prisons of Andersonville, GA, and Cahaba, AL on board that day, two are buried in Crown Hill Cemetery. Come hear author Gene Eric Salecker tell the amazing story of the steamboat Sultana. This story 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.Event LinksTickets: https://go.evvnt.com/3077990-0Website: https://go.evvnt.com/3077990-2 Details & Tickets: https://www.upcomingevents.com/indianapolis/events/crown-hill-funeral-home-and-cemetery/crown-hill-speaker-series-destruction-of-the-steamboat-sultana-465346?ref=uceaddevent Crown Hill Funeral Home and Cemetery, 700 38th Street, Indianapolis, IN, 46208

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    What connection does Crown Hill Cemetery have with the morning of April 27, 1865, and the explosion of the steamboat Sultana? Of the 2,000 Union soldiers released from the Confederate prisons of Andersonville, GA, and Cahaba, AL on board that day, two are buried in Crown Hill Cemetery. Come hear author Gene Eric Salecker tell the amazing story of the steamboat Sultana. This story 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.

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    Website: https://go.evvnt.com/3077990-2

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