(signed) CHARLES ELLET, JR., Colonel Commanding. The bearer of the flag and the above note was accompanied by Lieut. CRUNKELL, of the Fifty-ninth Illinois Regiment, and two men of the boat guard.

Back in 1851, before the world knew Mark Twain, Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, a man named Charles S. Ellet Jr. traveled the Mississippi and penned a document about the river. It wasn’t the kind of ...

That choice? Charles Ellet Jr. During a meeting at Memphis Heritage, Scott Andrews, who says he’s into obscure history, floated the suggestion that the statue of the Confederate general and ...

ELLET exposed himself recklessly, receiving a shot in the ankle. The wound has, it seems, proved fatal. CHARLES ELLET will always be remembered as one of the most ingenious, daring and successful ...