But in 1823, the first steamboat ascended the Mississippi to Fort ... built in the late 1800s, conveyed untreated waste directly into the river. The river’s banks were also crowded with ...

More than 1800 people died that day ... Many prisoners traveled home by way of the Mississippi River, on large steamboats. The Sultana was one such steamboat. On April 24, 1865, it set a course ...