U.S. Ram Monarch (1862-1864)

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Monarch, a 406-ton side-wheel towboat built at Fulton, Ohio, in 1853, was converted to a ram in 1862 for Colonel Charles Ellet's U.S. Ram Fleet. During Battle of Memphis on 6 June 1862, she rammed the Confederate ships Colonel Lovell and General Beauregard and helped pursue the fleeing Confederate ram General Earl van Dorn. During the rest of 1862 Monarch was active in the Yazoo River and the Mississippi above Vicksburg.

In January 1863, Monarch participated in the expedition to capture Fort Hindman, Arkansas. She then conducted further operations on the Yazoo and along the Tennessee rivers. She was placed in reserve when Ellet's Mississippi Marine Brigade was disbanded in mid-1864. Monarch was sunk by ice while laid up in December 1864 and was later broken up.

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