Drawing
Colonel Ellet's Rams
| "Colonel Ellet's Rams approaching the city of Memphis, Tennessee, to demand its surrender." Sketch of a cityscape in the background, the river with numerous ships (rams) navigating along it and another boat (steamboat?) in the middle ground. |
| Image ID: | 32935 |
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| Creation Date: | 06 06 1862 |
| Creator Name: | Simplot, Alexander |
| City: | Memphis |
| County: | |
| State: | Tennessee |
| Collection Name: | Simplot, A. (Alexander), 1837-1914 : A. Simplot papers and drawings, 1866-1911 |
| Genre: | Drawing |
| Original Format Type: | drawings |
| Original Format Number: | PH 1558.18 |
| Original Dimensions: | 11 x 8.5 inches |
| A "ram" is a ship which uses it's reinforced bow to ram into the hull of an enemy ship. During the Civil War, the North employed the use of specialist rams in the Mississippi River area, including the "Ellet Ram" which were Army ships which cooperated with the Navy. Alexander Simplot became well known during the Civil War for furnishing many of the sketches used by Harper's Weekly in their coverage of the war. Because of his location, Simplot primarily covered the war on the Mississippi River and Missouri. Working primarily in pencil, he captured the flavor of the war in the Transmississippi. He was the only artist on hand to cover the Battle of Memphis which took place on June 6, 1862. |
| Battles |
| Naval history |
| Civil War, 1861-1865 |
| Warships |
| Boats and boating |
| Steamboats |
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