Robert Anderson is widely believed to have been the officer who swore Abraham Lincoln into service for the Black Hawk War. The Kentucky-born Anderson was a major by the time the situation became tense in Charleston, South Carolina, and he was sent to take command of Fort Moultrie. Anderson was not considered a trouble maker but fooled his superiors. Without orders from Washington, Anderson transferred to Fort Sumter because it was a much stronger installation.
George Burgwyn Anderson became an instant brigadier at Williamsburg, Virginia, because Jefferson Davis liked the way he lead a charge.
Southern Colonel Lloyd J. Beall, a former U.S. Army paymaster, was named commandant for the Confederate Marine Corps even though he had no experience as a marine. After the war, Beall lived in Richmond, Virginia, and had personally kept most of the records for the Confederate Marine Corps at his home. The history of the corps, along with Beall's own history, was destroyed in a fire.
Mary and Molly Bell were patriotic sisters who served for two years in Confederate General Jubal Early's cavalry under they names Tom Parker and Bob Martin. They were unmasked as women in October of 1864 and sent home.