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Beauregard the Great Creole in the Civil War Portrait
A portrait of Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, his rise from Louisiana plantation life to West Point, his role at Bull Run and Shiloh, and the fading of his fame after the Civil War. Hamilton Basso’s Beauregard biography aims to explain why the Southern hero receded from memory and how myth shaped his legacy.
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Fort Sumter
Confederate States of America
Confederate Congress
General Assembly of
South Carolina
New Orleans
Montgomery
Ala
Richmond
Jefferson Davis
Manassas
Bull Run
Virginia
Washington
States of ‘America
Pierre Gustave Tourant Beauregard
Charles Scribner's Sons
Beauregard
Hamilton Basso
Bagso
Lee
Robert Edward Lee
Stonewall Jack Bi
al Sidney Johnston
Jeb : Velah
Iain
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
Ims
Mississipp Oiver
Jefferaovil
Good
Benjamin
Department of the West
Albert Sidney Johnston
Shiloh
Pittsburg
Johnston
Corinth
Grant
Gard
Hatlock
Braxton
Charleston
Riedmut
Jubal A. Early
Pierre Gustave Toutint Beauregard
Octopus
Stuart
Western Newspaper Union