Ok, this happened a few weeks after the Civil War. Not ancient history, but a story I never new about. It's about a Union prisoner troop transport paddle wheel, The Sultana, that sunk in Mississippi, w/ a death toll larger than The Titanic. After so much death from the war, 1753 souls didn't seem like much. A tale of greed.
Disaster on the Mississippi: The Sultana Tragedy
Disaster on the Mississippi: The Sultana Tragedy