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Old 12-27-2010, 10:55 AM   #40
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And sometimes worse disasters are overlooked.


The estimates are around 1700 and many burned to death.
I read a book about the Sultana, very sad. A lot of those were prisoners who had just suffered months in Andersonville and other prison camps and had just been released.

My great (great?) grandfather was in Andersonville, when he got out he weighed less than 50 pounds. Bad stuff.
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