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The Confederate States Marine Corps (CSMC), a branch of the Confederate States armed forces, was established by an act of the Congress of the Confederate States on March 16, 1861. The CSMC's manpower was initially authorized at 45 officers and 944 enlisted men, and was increased on September 24, 1862 to 1,026 enlisted men. The organization of the corps began at Montgomery, Alabama, and was completed at Richmond, Virginia, when the capital of the Confederate States of America was moved to that location. The CSMC headquarters and main training facilities remained in Richmond, Virginia throughout the war, located at Camp Beall on Drewry's Bluff and at the Gosport Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia.〔Sharf, pp.769–772〕 ==Modeled after USMC== Before the war, the United States Marine Corps had been an "exceptionally fine and well-disciplined" organization, and "from it came the nucleus of the corresponding establishment of the Confederate service", the CSMC.〔Sharf, p.769〕 The CSMC was modeled after the United States Marine Corps, but there were some differences: the Confederates organized themselves into permanent companies, replaced the fife with the light infantry bugle, and wore uniforms similar to those of British Royal Marines. Like the USMC, when ashore they provided guard detachments for Confederate naval stations at: *Richmond, Virginia *Camp Beall, located near Fort Darling at Drewry's Bluff, Virginia *Wilmington, North Carolina – Fort Fisher *Charlotte, North Carolina *Charleston, South Carolina *Hilton Head Island, South Carolina *Savannah, Georgia *Pensacola, Florida – (manned naval shore batteries) *Mobile, Alabama Seagoing detachments served aboard the various warships and even on commerce destroyers. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Confederate States Marine Corps」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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