During the American Civil War the SS Sultana was destroyed in an explosion on April 27, 1865 as it was transporting released Union POWs near historic Mound City, just east of Marion.
The J. Mack Gamble Fund of the Sons and Daughters of Pioneer Rivermen and the Friends and Descendants of the Sultana sponsored a mural by Louisiana artist Robert Dafford and his crew entitled The Sultana Departs from Vicksburg as one of the Vicksburg Riverfront Murals.
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Jay Farrar of the band Son Volt wrote a song called "Sultana", paying tribute to "the worst American disaster of the maritime".
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Farrar calls the ship "the Titanic of the Mississippi" in the song, which was released on the American Central Dust album.