Civil War CDV Confederate General PGT Beauregard
February 20, 1893 (aged 74). Tomb of the Army of Tennessee. Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, Louisiana. United States of America (18381861). Confederate States of America (18611865).
First Battle of Bull Run. First Battle of Charleston Harbor.
First Battle of Fort Wagner. Second Battle of Fort Wagner. Second Battle of Charleston Harbor. Second Battle of Fort Sumter. Author, civil servant, politician, inventor, civil rights advocate. Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard signature. Pierre-Gustave Toutant de Beauregard (May 28, 1818 February 20, 1893) was an American military officer who was the first prominent general of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Today, he is commonly referred to as P. Beauregard, but he rarely used his first name as an adult. He signed correspondence as G.Trained as a civil engineer at the United States Military Academy, Beauregard served with distinction as an engineer in the MexicanAmerican War. Following a brief appointment as superintendent at West Point in 1861, after the South seceded he resigned from the United States Army and became the first brigadier general in the Confederate States Army. He commanded the defenses of Charleston, South Carolina, at the start of the Civil War at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861. Three months later he won the First Battle of Bull Run near Manassas, Virginia.
Beauregard commanded armies in the Western Theater, including at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee, and the Siege of Corinth in northern Mississippi. His greatest achievement was saving the important industrial city of Petersburg, Virginia, in June 1864, and thus the nearby Confederate capital of Richmond, from assaults by overwhelmingly superior Union Army forces. His influence over Confederate strategy was lessened by his poor professional relationships with President Jefferson Davis and other senior generals and officials. In April 1865, Beauregard and his commander, General Joseph E. Johnston, convinced Davis and the remaining cabinet members that the war needed to end. Johnston surrendered most of the remaining armies of the Confederacy, including Beauregard and his men, to Major General William Tecumseh Sherman. "Guaranteed Civil War image from the 1860's". The item "Civil War CDV Confederate General PGT Beauregard" is in sale since Wednesday, January 9, 2019. This item is in the category "Collectibles\Militaria\Civil War (1861-65)\Original Period Items\Photographs". The seller is "civil_war_photos" and is located in Midland, Michigan. This item can be shipped worldwide.