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BEAUREGARD, Pierre Gustave Toutant was born on May 28, 1818 in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, United States, United States. Son of Jacques Toutant and Helen Judith (de Reggio) Beauregard.
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Title: The Military Operations of General Beauregard in the war between the States, 1861 to 1865. Including a brief personal sketch, and a narrative of his services in the war with Mexico, 1846-8. Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC. The MILITARY HISTORY & WARFARE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This series offers titles on warfare from ancient to modern times. It includes detailed accounts of campaigns, battles, weapons, as well as the soldiers and commanders who devised, initiated, and supported war efforts throughout history. Specific analyses discuss the impact of war on societies, cultures, economies, and changing international relationships. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Roman, Alfred; Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant; 1884. 2 vol. ; 8º. 9603.eee.7.
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(An article excerpted from "The Century" magazine, 1884; p...)
An article excerpted from "The Century" magazine, 1884; pages 80-106. The Confederate commanding General's firsthand account and personal description of this early and significant battle of the War Between the States. It also includes a section designated "Subsequent Relations of Mr. Jefferson Davis and the Writer." Here one meets with many soon-to-become-famous names of Federal and Confederate personalities. Beauregard's personal philosophy regarding Confederate military and political strategies which he had advised and believed should have been used to ensure victory for the Southern cause are also discussed. The Federal attack, already thus greatly favored, and encouraged, moreover, by the rout of General Bees advanced line, failed for two reasons: their forces were not handled with concert of masses (a fault often made later on both sides), and the individual action of the Confederate troops was superior, notwithstanding inferiority in numbers, arms, and equipments, and for a very palpable reason. That one army was fighting for union and the other for disunion is a political expression; the actual fact on the battle-field, in the face of cannon and musket, was that the Federal troops came as invaders, and the Southern troops stood as defenders of their homes, and further than this we need not go. (p. 102) As a military question, it was in no sense a civil war, but a war between two countriesfor conquest on one side, for self-preservation on the other. (p. 104) If that which was accepted as a last defensive resort against an overwhelming aggressive army had been used in an enterprising offensive against that same army while yet in the raw, the same venture had been made at less general risk, less cost of valuable lives, and with immeasurably greater certain results. The Federal Army of the Potomac would have had no chance meanwhile to become tempered to that magnificent military machine which, through all its defeats and losses, remained sound, and was stronger, with its readily assimilating new strength, at the end of the war than ever before; the pressure would have been lifted from Kentucky and Missouri, and we should have maintained what is called an active defensive warfare, that is, taken and kept the offensive against the enemy, enforcing peace. No people ever warred for independence with more relative advantages than the Confederates; and if, as a military question, they must have failed, then no country must aim at freedom by means of war. (p.104)
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BEAUREGARD, Pierre Gustave Toutant was born on May 28, 1818 in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, United States, United States. Son of Jacques Toutant and Helen Judith (de Reggio) Beauregard.
Private school, United States Military Academy.
He was a member of an old and aristocratic Creole family. For a time he was educated in a private school in New York City. He graduated second in a class of forty-five from the U.S. Military Academy in 1838.
He was a Catholic. He married Laure Marie Villère, sister of Charles Villère ) in 1841, and Caroline Deslonde in 1860. Beauregard entered the U.S. Army as a second lieutenant of engineers and served chiefly in Louisiana until 1846. In 1847, he supervised the construction of defenses at Tampico.
He also participated in the siege of Vera Cruz and Mexico City and was breveted a major during the Mexican War. From 1853 to 1861, he was a captain of engineers on the Gulf Coast of Louisiana. In January 1861, he was named superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy, a position which he resigned to become the first brigadier general in the Confederate Army.
He was commander of Confederate forces at the battles of Fort Sumter and First Manassas. He also designed the Confederate battle flag in September 1861. In the spring of 1862, he assumed Confederate command at Shiloh following the death of General Albert Sidney Johnston, but he was forced to give up the battle.
After the battle of Corinth in October 1862, he was accused of overly elaborate battle plans. Ill health forced his temporary retirement from active military service in late 1862, after which he was a commander of Confederate forces at Charleston, South Carolina, a city which he held for two years. In April 1864, he defeated the Union general Benjamin Butler at the battle of Petersburg, and from October 1864 until he was relieved by General Joseph E. Johnston in February 1865, he commanded the Army of the West.
Beauregard, who published Maxima of Art of War in 1863, was also a prolific correspondent and military theoretician. He was the symbolic leader of the “Western concentration bloc” of anti-Davis forces. His wartime career was marred by petty jealousies against his early successes.
He served the final few months of the war with Joseph Johnston in North Carolina. After the surrender he returned to Louisiana, having declined an offer to command the Rumanian army. From 1865 to 1870, he was president of the New Orleans, Jackson, and Mississippi Railroad.
He became manager of the Louisiana lottery from which he recouped the family losses from the war. In 1888, he served as the commander of public works in New Orleans. An excellent writer, he became an important historian of Civil War battles in the last years of his life.
( Title: The Military Operations of General Beauregard in...)
(An article excerpted from "The Century" magazine, 1884; p...)
"Peculiar institution" of slavery was not only expedient but also ordained by God and upheld in Holy Scripture.
Stands for preserving slavery, states' rights, and political liberty for whites. Every individual state is sovereign, even to the point of secession.
Spouse Laure Marie Villère.
