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Assumed | Relieved | Rank | Name | Cullum | Notes |
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1860-12-26 | 1861-04-01 | Major | Anderson, Robert | 406 | Forced to surrender to Confederates at the start of the U.S. Civil War Transferred his command from Fort Moultrie |
1863-09-04 | 1864-05 | Lt. Col. | Elliott, Stephen | N/A | Confederate commander. |
1864-05 | 1864-07-20 | Capt. | Mitchel, John C. | N/A | Confederate commander. Killed in the third bombardment of the fort. |
1864-07-20 | 1865-02-17 | Capt. | Huguenin, Thomas A. | N/A | Last Confederate commander. He evacuated the fort but did not surrender it. |
Dates are formatted in yyyy-mm-dd to sort correctly. The Cullum Number is the graduation order from the United States Military Academy by year and class rank and links to a page for the officer on the website version of the Cullum Register. Listings without a Cullum Number indicate that the person was not a graduate of the United States Military Academy. |