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Who was the Colonel Commandant of the Confederate States Marine Corps?
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Lloyd J. Beall, Colonel Commandant, CS Marine Corps held that position from 23 May 1861 to the end of the Civil War. He is the only person to have ever held that position. A former US Army Major, he was a West Point graduate (1830), Graduate of the French Cavalry School at Saumur, France and a vetran of the Black Hawk, Seminole and Mexican American Wars.
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