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There's a popular saying that declares "timing is everything", and in no other field of analysis is that truer than ever sold. For instance, under normal conditions, a ship that sank with more than 2,000 individuals aboard - most of whom passed away - would be big information, yet today the sinking of the SS Sultana is often overlooked if not completely forgotten. Although it might have generated the type of publicity and result of the Johnstown Overflow of 1889 or the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 under normal circumstances, the explosion and sinking of the Sultana on Apr 27, 1865, is becoming something of an historical footnote. The irony is that the Sultana is a historical footnote due to Civil Warfare, but it was also intimately linked with the war. Although Robert E. Lee's surrender to Ulysses Offer at Appomattox had not been technically the end of the Civil Warfare, it took one of the previous remaining Confederate armies from the field. Furthermore, on the night time of Apr 14, lots of the Union's hopes for future years were dashed when President Abraham Lincoln was taken at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D. C. The people of the nation quickly became a volatile mixture of grief and outrage, bored with anything that didn't relate to the death of the beloved president. In fact, just the day before the disaster, as the Sultana was sailing up the Mississippi River to her rendezvous with future, Union Army troops cornered and killed Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth.
