Confederate States Marine Corps - Modeled After USMC

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. 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.