Confederate States Marine Corps

The Confederate States Marine Corps (CSMC), a branch of the Confederate Navy, was established by the Confederate Congress on March 16, 1861. The CSMC's strength was authorized at 46 officers and 944 enlisted men; its enrollment never approached that number; the figures for 30 Oct. 1864 lists only 539 officers and enlisted men. Though the officers mostly were former U.S. Marine officers, the Head of the Corps, Commandant-Colonel Lloyd J. Beall, was a former U.S. Army paymaster with no Marine experience.
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