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Beauregard the Great Creole in fading Southern memory
A profile of Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard tracing his rise from Louisiana planter to Civil War hero and later obscurity. The piece notes his Manassas and Shiloh actions, clashes with Jefferson Davis, and postwar worship in the South, ending with his death and lingering memory. It highlights Hamilton Basso’s new Scribner biography as context for his diminished standing.
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Confederate States of America
Confederate Congress
General Assembly of
South Carolina
New Orleans
Montgomery
Ala
Richmond
Jefferson Davis
Manassas
Bull Run
Virginia
Washington
Confederates States of America
Pierre Gustave Tourant Beauregard
Charles Scribner's Sons
Beauregard
Hamilton Basso
Basso
Robert Edward Lee
Lee
Stonewall Jackson
Albert Sldney Johnston
Jeb Stuart
Jefferson
Fort Sam
Davis
South
Louisiana
New York
Peugnet
Napoleon
United States Military Academy
West Point
Robert Anderson
Irvin McDowell
Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard
Bull Run Creek
Engineers Corps
Fort Adams
Rhode Island
Barataria Bay
Laure Villere
Contreras
Churubusco
Chaaltepec
Lincoln
Mississippi River Passage
Benjamin
West
Albert Sidney Johnston
Shiloh
Pittsburg
Johnston
Grant
Corinth
Sumter
Halleck
Braxton Bragg
Charleston
Petersburg
Joseph Johnston
Sherman
Jubal A. Early
the Octopus
Stuart
Western Newspaper Union