Austin, Mississippi The growing possibility of success at Vicksburg after the landings at Bruinsburg led Stanton to order Halleck to send the Mississippi Marine Brigade back to that area. During the move down the river the E. H. Fairchild, the brigade’s quartermaster vessel, came under fire from two shore batteries in the vicinity of Austin, […]
Mississippi Marine Brigade – Part 5
March 28th, 2014 · No Comments
Categories: Mississippi Marine Brigade (Campaign Series)
Tags: · 2nd arkansas cavalry, 2nd mississippi partisans, alfred w. ellet jr., austin mississippi, beaver dam lake, may 24 1863, mississippi marine brigade, w. f. slemons
Mississippi Marine Brigade – Part 4
March 21st, 2014 · 5 Comments
Tennessee Interlude The requested speed of action for the trip to Tennessee was not forthcoming. The Brigade spent the next ten days at Cairo, Illinois and Memphis reportedly coaling and finding Tennessee River pilots. The unexpected delay caused Ellet another rift with a superior officer. He failed to coordinate with MG Stephen A. Hurlbut, District […]
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Tags: · 6th texas cavalry, alfred w. ellet jr., ellets rams, mississippi marine brigade
Mississippi Marine Brigade – Part 3
March 14th, 2014 · No Comments
Early Missions On March 13th, 1863 four of the Mississippi Marine Brigade boats, Autocrat, Adams, Baltic, Diana, departed St Louis to report to Admiral Porter at Milliken’s Bend. The Raines remained behind with the Woodford to continue recruiting efforts and to tend to a outbreak of small pox that further depleted the Brigade numbers. The […]
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Tags: · adams, alfred w. ellet jr., autocrat, baltic, diana, lancaster, lioness, mississippi marine brigade, monarch, raines, switzerland, woodford
Mississippi Marine Brigade – Part 2
March 7th, 2014 · No Comments
Forming the Brigade The concept of a mobile force of mixed combat arms troops borne by modified river boats belonged to BG Alfred W. Ellet Jr. The commander of the Union’s brown water ram fleet had grown disenchanted with the routine duties that were assigned to the surviving rams by the end of 1862 and […]
Categories: Mississippi Marine Brigade (Campaign Series)
Tags: · 18th illinois, 59th illinois, 63rd illinois, alfred w. ellet jr., autocrat, b. j. adams, baltic, benton barracks, diana, e. h. fairchild, ellets rams, john raine, mississippi marine brigade, woodford
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