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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 […]
Mississippi Marine Brigade – Part 3
March 14th, 2014 · No Comments
Categories: Mississippi Marine Brigade (Campaign Series)
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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