Trivia 6-6-16 Paymaster

[Trivia Master]

Who was the only Paymaster of the Confederate States Marine Corps during the war?

credit: @NFB22

 

[MRB1863]

Maj. Richard T. Allison

 

[truthckr]

Maj. Richard T. Allison

 

[Copperhead-mi]

Major Richard T. Allison

 

[Reb]

Major William Worthington Russell

Edit - Russell was Paymaster of the U. S. Marine Corps in 1861-62, but never served on the Confederate side.

Hoosier

 

[Mike Serpa]

Lloyd James Beall

Edit - Beall was a paymaster in the U. S. Army before joining the Confederacy. He became Commandant of the C. S. Marines, but was never their paymaster.

Hoosier

 

[ErnieMac]

Major Richard Taylor Allison.

 

[JohnDLittlefield]

RICHARD TAYLOR ALLISON
accepted an appointment as Major and Paymaster of the Confederate States Marine Corps, moving to Richmond and remaining there on station until the evacuation in 1865.

http://obscureamericanhistory.blogspot.com.tr/2011/09/confederate-states-of-america-marine.html

 

[Brenal]

Major Richard Taylor Allison

 

[FarawayFriend]

That was this dashing gentleman here, Richard Taylor Allison:

http://obscureamericanhistory.blogspot.de/2011/09/confederate-states-of-america-marine.html

From:
The Confederate Corps of Marines / by Gardner, Donald Ray; Marine Corps University (U.S.). History and Museums Division, page 12
https://ia802303.us.archive.org/2/items/confederatecorps00gard/confederatecorps00gard.pdf

 

[kholland]

Major Richard T. Allison

 

[TinCan]

Richard Taylor Allison

 

[Stony]

Paymaster - Maj. Richard Taylor Allison

source-http://obscureamericanhistory.blogspot.com/2011/09/confederate-states-of-america-marine.html

 

[1stMN]

Answer: Maj. Richard T. Allison
Source: Journal of the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865. Volume II, page 421.

 

[MajGenl.Meade]

Source: The Papers of Andrew Johnson , Vol. 8 May-August 1865; ed. Paul H Bergeron; Univ. of Tennessee Press, Knoxville; 1989

Major Richard T. Allison

 

[MaryDee]

Per http://civilwarwiki.net/wiki/Confederate_States_Marine_Corps, Major Richard T. Alliston was the CSA Marine Corps paymaster. Lots more detail, including that he served throughout the war, and saved some of the CSA Marine Corps records from destruction in April 1865, here: http://obscureamericanhistory.blogspot.com/2011/09/confederate-states-of-america-marine.html

Potential trap--I hope nobody got caught!--the commandant of the CSA Marine Corps, Lloyd J. Beall, was a US Army paymaster before the war.

 

[nextcity]

Richard Taylor Allison

The Confederate States of America Marine Corps history saved by this man:Richard Taylor Allison​

http://obscureamericanhistory.blogspot.com/2011/09/confederate-states-of-america-marine.html

 

[Northern Light]

Maj. Richard T. Allison (Civil War Wiki)

 

[57th Indiana Infantry]

Maj. Richard T. Allison

Blog
The Confederate States of America Marine Corps history saved by this man:Richard Taylor Allison
http://obscureamericanhistory.blogspot.com/2011/09/confederate-states-of-america-marine.html

 

[38th OVI]

Major Richard Taylor Allison