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|rank=35px Major (USA) 35px Colonel (CSA) |commands=Confederate States Marine Corps |unit= 1st U.S. Infantry 2nd U.S. Dragoons |battles=Black Hawk War Seminole Wars Mexican-American War American Civil War |awards= |laterwork=Alderman of Richmond, Virginia }} Lloyd James Beall (October 19, 1808 – November 10, 1887) was a United States Army officer and paymaster. During the American Civil War, he served as a colonel and as Commandant of the Confederate States Marine Corps. He was the only man to command the Confederate marines throughout the conflict. ==Early life and career== He was born at Fort Adams in Newport, Rhode Island, the son of Lloyd Beall and Elizabeth Waugh Jones, who were Marylanders. Beall was a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, in 1830. He also attended the Cavalry School of Saumur, France, from 1840 to 1842, to learn the French Army's system of Dragoon exercise. In 1844, Beall was promoted to major in the U.S. Army. He served in the Black Hawk and Seminole Wars and in the Mexican-American War. He was a U.S. Army paymaster stationed at St. Louis, Missouri, when the Civil War began.〔1860 U.S. Federal Census, St. Louis Co., MO, St. Louis Ward 6, June 20, sht. 43, p. 309, line 4.〕 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「Lloyd J. Beall」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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