Ellet's Stern Wheel Ram

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Charles Ellet, Jr. (1 January 1810 – 21 June 1862) was a civil engineer and a colonel during the American Civil War, mortally wounded at the Battle of Memphis.

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Ellet converted several powerful river towboats, heavily reinforcing their hulls for ramming.

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Benson John Lossing, ed. Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (vol. 3) (New York, NY: Harper and Brothers, 1912)

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