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Booth’s secrets die with him.

The assassin was shot after soldiers set the barn he was hiding in on fire. Why
was he not taken alive so that he could be interrogated?

APRIL 27, 1865
THE SINKING OF THE SULTANA / 1700 DEAD /
GREATEST MARITIME DISASTER IN U.S HISTORY

The Sultana is a Mississippi River steamboat that is tied up at Cairo, Illinois
when word reaches the city that Lincoln had been shot in Ford's Theater.
Immediately, Captain Mason grabs an armload of newspapers and heads south to
spread the news, knowing that telegraphic communication with the South had

been almost totally cut off because of the war.

While docking in Vicksburg, Mississippi, to pick up a couple of thousand
recently-released Union Prisoners-of-War, Sultana also has some repairs done to
a leaky boiler. This gives Benjamin’s Confederate secret agents access to the
ship.

After leaving port in Mississippi, three of the boat's four boilers suddenly
explode. Sultana burns to the waterline, sinking near Memphis, Tennessee. An
estimated 1,700 of her 2,400 passengers die (35) (more than the death toll of the