04.27.15
150 years ago, 1,800 passengers on the steamship Sultana—mainly Andersonville POWs—died. The deaths were overshadowed by Lincoln's, whose backdoor dealings may have played a part.
Abraham Lincoln’s near-apotheosis from man to national myth began soon after his April 15, 1865 death at the hands of a disgruntled actor. Just a day later, on Easter Sunday, preachers and priests compared his death to Jesus’ in pulpits around the nation. Millions of Americans paid homage to him in the ensuing weeks as his body was carried nearly 1,700 miles from Washington D.C. to its final resting place in Springfield, Illinois. Reporters for the nation’s largest newspapers breathlessly covered the funeral train procession. Right around the time Lincoln’s body was heading to Buffalo, NY, a colossal disaster erupted between podunk Arkansas and Tennessee.
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