Mississippi Marine Brigade
After Charles Ellet's death, his younger brother Alfred W. Ellet took command of the rams. The unit was reorganized as the Mississippi Marine Brigade in early 1863. Under the younger Ellet's leadership, the rams figured prominently in actions around and below Vicksburg, Mississippi, into 1863. Ellet's ram fleet was under the command of the army even after the transfer of the Western Gunboat Flotilla to the navy and was always somewhat independent of navy command. The Ellet fleet was disestablished in August 1864, and its surviving ships were transferred to other duties.
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