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Beauregard the Great Creole hailed as Civil War hero
A retrospective on Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard recounts his rise from West Point graduate to Confederate commander, the adulation he inspired in the South, and his later eclipse amid myth making about the war. Hamilton Basso’s Be auregard biography argues the Creole long endured obscurity due to tradition and Davis’s rivalry.
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Elmo Scott Watson
Fort Sumter
Confederate States of America
Confederate Congress
Richmond
Jefferson Davis
Manassas
Bull
Confederates States of America
Pierre Gustave Tourant Beauregard
Charles Scribner's Sons
Beauregard
Hamilton Basso
Basso
Lee
Mr. Basso
Robert Edward Lee
Stonewall Jackson
Albert Sidney Johnston
Jeb Stuart
Davis
South
Louisiana
New York
Peugnet
Napoleon
United States Military Academy
West Point
Robert Anderson
Irvin McDowell
Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard
Bull Run Creek
Virginia
Beauuregard
Engineers Corps
Fort Adams
Rhode Island
Barataria Bay
Laure Villere
Contreras
Churubusco
Chaultepec
New Orleans
Lincoln
Washington
Mississippi River Passage
Montgomery
Jefferson Devis
Benjamin
Department of the West
Shiloh
Pittsburg
Johnston
Grant
Corinth
Sumter
Manasens
Halleck
Braxton Bragg
Charleston
Petersburg
Joseph Johnston
Sherman
Jubal A. Early
Octopus
Stuart
Western Newspaper Union