Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893

P.G.T. Beauregard was a Confederate States Army general from New Orleans, Louisiana. The Aztec Club was organized in 1847 as a fraternal society for officers serving under General Winfield Scott's command in Mexico City. Several officers later became major Civil War leaders.

Former Confederate general and resident of New Orleans. At the time of this letter was written Phillips was an editor and book reviewer for 33 years with the New York Times.

Confederate brigadier general, president of the New Orleans, Jackson and Mississippi Railway, and adjutant general of Louisiana; resident of New Orleans, La.

Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard was an engineer, author, and military officer, of New Orleans, La.; graduated, 1838, from the U.S. Military Aceadmy (West Point); served as lieutenant in U.S. Army during the Mexican War and as a general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; lieutenant of engineers, fortification work in Louisiana, 1846; chief engineer in charge of draining site of New Orleans, 1858-1861; president of New Orleans, Jackson and Mississippi railway, 1865-1870; manager, Louisiana lottery, 1870-1888; Commissioner of Public Works, New Orleans, La., 1888; son of Jacques Toutant-Beauregard and Helene Judith (Deggio) Toutant-Beauregard; husband of Laura Villere and Caroline Delonde.

U.S. and Confederate Army officer, engineer, railroad executive, and public official. Full name: Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard.

Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard was a Confederate general in the American Civil War. He was the author of Principles and Maxims of the Art of War (1863) and Report on the Defense of Charleston (1864).

Born Pierre Gustave Toutant de Beauregard in New Orleans, La.; served in U.S. Army during Mexican War; resigned from U.S. Army, 1861; appointed brigadier general in Confederate Army, 1861.

American businessman, politician, and soldier. He served as a General in the Confederate Army.

G. T. (Gustave Toutant) Beauregard (1818-1893) was a career soldier who attained the rank of brigadier general in the Confederate Army. He commanded forces at Fort Sumter and First Manassas, and assumed command at Shiloh following General Johnston's death. He commanded the forces at Charleston, holding the city for two years. He was an important historian, and published MAXIMA OF THE ART OF WAR in 1863. These photocopies are chiefly letters from Beauregard to military and civil officers, including Samuel Cooper (1798-1876), adjutant and inspector general, who later became a full general, the highest ranking officer in the Confederacy, and a close friend of Jefferson Davis; George Wythe Randolph (1818-1867) Secretary of War for the Confederacy; William Preston Johnston (1831-1899) colonel aide-de-camp to Pres. Davis; John Horace Forney (1829-1902), a career Army officer who rose to the rank of brigadier general in the Confederate Army and commanded the District of the Gulf; Gustavus W. Smith (1822-1896), civil and military engineer and a major general in the confederate Army, commanding Peninsular campaign following the wounding of Gen. Johnston and the arrival of Gen. Lee; and a letter to Charles J. Villere, important member of the Confederate Congress and brother-in-law of Beauregard, from R. L. Brodie, Confederate surgeon.

G. T. Beauregard was a Confederate States Army general of New Orleans, La. Edward Clifton Wharton, also of New Orleans, was Confederate Army major and a journalist.

American businessman, politician and soldier. He served as a general for the Confederacy during the American Civil War (1861-1865).

Pierre Gustave Toutant de Beauregard was born at his family's plantation in St. Bernard Parish, near New Orleans, Louisiana. He was the son of Jacques Toutant-Beauregard, a planter, and Helene Judith de Reggio. He was educated in private schools in New Orleans and New York, then attended the U.S. Military Academy (West Point), graduating second in the class of 1838. As a commissioned officer, he was involved in engineering projects in Florida and Louisiana. In 1841, he married Marie Laure Villère, whose grandfather was the first native-born governor of Louisiana. They had two sons; she died in 1850. G. T. Beauregard served with distinction in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War. Returning to Louisiana, he resumed engineering duties, and married Caroline Deslonde in 1860, who died in 1864. With the secession of Louisiana, he had resigned his commission in 1861, and enlisted in the Confederate Army as a private in a volunteer company. Jefferson Davis appointed Beauregard a brigadier general in the CSA; he served in Charleston, S.C., supervising the bombardment of Fort Sumter, as well as at Manassas, Virginia. He was promoted to full general and assigned to the western theater in 1862, where he had responsibilities to oversee Confederate armies in Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and the Carolinas. After the war, Beauregard returned to New Orleans, becoming president of the New Orleans, Jackson & Mississippi Railroad from 1865 to 1870. He became manager of the Louisiana State Lottery Company in 1877, then commissioner of public works in New Orleans in 1888. He died in 1893, and his remains were interred in Metairie Cemetery.

Confederate general.

Born Pierre Gustave Toutant de Beauregard, in New Orleans, La.; served in U.S. Army during Mexican War; resigned from U.S. Army, 1861; appointed brigadier general in Confederate Army, 1861.

G. T. Beauregard was a general in the Confederate Army.

G.T. Beauregard (1818-1893), Confederate Army officer.

Confederate general; full name Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard.

G. T. Beauregard was a Confederate States Army general of New Orleans, Louisiana. His son, Rene Toutant Beauregard, was married to Clemence Cenas, the daughter of Hilary B. Cenas and Marguerite Pierce Cenas.

Confederate Army officer.

Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard (1818-1893) was born in Louisiana. He studied civil engineering at West Point and served as an engineer in the Mexican-American War. Following the succession of the Southern states in 1861, Beauregard became the first Confederate brigadier general. He commanded the Confederate defenses at Fort Sumter in April 1861, and also served in the First Battle of Bull Run, the Battle of Shiloh, and the Siege of Corinth, before surrendering to William T. Sherman in 1865. After the war Beauregard worked as general superindendent of the New Orleans, Jackson, and Great Northern Railroad, and was also president of the New Orleans and Carrollton Street Railway. He was appointed supervisor of the Louisiana Lottery in 1877. He died in New Orleans in 1893.

Confederate general in charge of coastal defenses for South Carolina and Georgia, and particularly Charleston, S.C.

P.G.T. Beauregard of New Orleans, La., graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1838. He served in the Mexican War and directed the building of the Federal customs house in New Orleans. Beauregard was a full general in the Confederate States Army during the Civil War, serving at Fort Sumter, the First Battle of Manassas, the Battle of Shiloh, and the Second Battle of Petersburg, among others. After the war, he served as president of two Louisiana railway companies and as manager of the Louisiana Lottery.

Born in Saint Bernard Parish, Louisiana; graduate of West Point and veteran of the Mexican War; service with the Confederate Army at Fort Sumter, First Manassas, Shiloh, and Corinth; in command of forces in the Carolinas, Georgia, and Virginia.

Military engineer; lieutenant, Mexican War; general, Confederate Army, Civil War.

West Point graduate, 1838; lieutenant of engineers, fortification work in Louisiana, 1846; chief engineer in charge of draining site of New Orleans, 1858-1861; president, New Orleans, Jackson and Mississippi railway, 1865-1870; manager, Louisiana lottery, 1870-1888; commissioner of public works, New Orleans, 1888; adjutant general of Louisiana; author of books about military operations.

Military engineer; lieutenant, Mexican War; general, Confederate Army, Civil War.

West Point graduate, 1838; lieutenant of engineers, fortification work in Louisiana, 1846; chief engineer in charge of draining site of New Orleans, 1858-1861; manager, Louisiana lottery, 1870-1888; commissioner of public works, New Orleans, 1888; adjutant general of Louisiana; author of books about military operations.

Military engineer; lieutenant, Mexican War; general, Confederate Army, Civil War.

West Point graduate, 1838; lieutenant of engineers, fortification work in Louisiana, 1846; chief engineer in charge of draining site of New Orleans, 1858-1861; manager, Louisiana lottery, 1870-1888; commissioner of public works, New Orleans, 1888; adjutant general of Louisiana; author of books about military operations.

Military engineer; lieutenant, Mexican War; general, Confederate Army, Civil War.

West Point graduate, 1838; lieutenant of engineers, fortification work in Louisiana, 1846; chief engineer in charge of draining site of New Orleans, 1858-1861; president, New Orleans, Jackson and Mississippi railway, 1865-1870; manager, Louisiana lottery, 1870-1888; commissioner of public works, New Orleans, 1888; adjutant general of Louisiana; author of books about military operations.

Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard was born May 28, 1818 near New Orleans, Louisiana. He was a Confederate general in the American Civil War. Beauregard graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. (1838) and served in the Mexican War (1846-1848). After the secession of Louisiana from the Union (January 1861), Beauregard resigned from the U.S. Army and was commissioned a brigadier general in the Confederate Army; he eventually became one of the eight full generals of the Confederacy and particpated in almost every important theatre of the war. He commanded the forces that bombarded Fort Sumter, S.C., and was on the field at the First Battle of Bull Run (1861), and assumed command at Shiloh after the death of General Albert Sidney Johnston (1862). He later conducted the defense of Charleston and toward the end of the war defended the southern approaches to Richmond. Though he proved to be a capable combat commander and often displayed sound strategic sense, Beauregard revealed serious deficiencies as a general officer. His penchant for questioning orders bordered on insubordination. He died on February 20, 1893 in New Orleans. Britannica Online Encyclopedia http://search.eb.com (Retrieved November 18, 2008)

Howell Cobb was born Spetember 7, 1815 in Jefferson County, Georgia. He was a Georgia politician who championed Southern unionism during the 1850s but then advocated immediate secession following the election of Abraham Lincoln. Cobb served in Congress from 1842 to 1851 and agina from 1855 to 1857; he supported the annexation of Texas, the war with Mexico, and the extension of slavery into the territories. But he broke with the most extreme proslavery Southerners when he advocated extending the Missouri Compromise line to the Pacific, opposed the creation of a sectional political party, and supported the Compromise of 1850. He died in New York City on October 9, 1868. Britannica Online Encyclopedia http://search.eb.com (Retrieved November 18, 2008)

G.T. Beauregard was a Confederate General.

He was born in 1818 in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana and graduated from West Point in 1838. Beauregard commanded troops at Fort Sumter in 1861, and he was named full general after the Battle of 1st Bull Run. Beauregard died in New Orleans in 1893.

Biographical Note

Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard (1818-1893), commonly referred to as G. T. Beauregard, was born on May 28, 1838, in Saint Bernard Parish, Louisiana. Beauregard attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, and graduated second in his class in 1838. He served in the Mexican War (1846-1848) as an engineer officer on the staff of General Winfield Scott (1786-1866). After the war, Beauregard was placed in charge of the Mississippi and Lake Defenses of Louisiana in 1848, a position he held until 1860. On January 23, 1861, he was appointed the superintendent of the United States Military Academy, but decided to relinquish his post and resign his commission from the United States Army after Louisiana seceded from the Union on January 26. In February 1861, Beauregard accepted a new commission as brigadier general for the Confederate Army. He was crucial in forcing the surrender of Fort Sumter on April 13, 1861, which began the American Civil War (1861-1865). Beauregard was named a full general in the Confederate Army in July 1861 and kept that position through the end of the war. After the Civil War, Beauregard returned to New Orleans where he engaged in politics and served as president of two railroad companies. G. T. Beauregard died on February 20, 1893.