Sultana ceremony in Knoxville redux...

Fred Brown at the Knoxville News Sentinel reports on the ceremony held yesterday at Mt. Olive Cemetery, where brothers John and William Brown had their names added to the monument there. Both were soldiers from Knoxville who were killed in the disaster.

The Sultana Association, founded by Knoxville attorney Norman Shaw, engraved their names in the Sultana monument at the cemetery, 2500 Maryville Pike. The two men were honored Thursday.

About 30 people attended the ceremony on the 141st anniversary of the day the steamboat blew apart with about 2,300 people aboard, including about 2,100 prisoners of war from Andersonville and Cahaba, Ala.

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