| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.4

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Ellet's Brigade: The Strangest Outfit of All. By Chester G. Hearn. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000. xviii, 289 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8071-2559-8.)

Chester G. Hearn has written a detailed organizational and operational history of the little-known Mississippi Ram Fleet and Mississippi Marine Brigade during the Civil War. Pri?marily, it is a study of how the Ellet family conceived the fleet of rams, organized the marine brigade, and recruited personnel. Hearn provides insight into why more than a dozen members of the Ellet clan simultaneously fought each other for command, feuded with Union army and navy bureaucrats, and battled the Confederate enemy as they struggled from 1862 to 1864 to help Adm. David Dixon Porter and Gen. Ulysses S. Grant gain Union control over the lower Mississippi, Yazoo, and Red rivers. . . .

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