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Beauregard the Great Creole and the Civil War
A portrait of Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard from early acclaim to later obscurity. The essay surveys his Sumter fire and Manassas victories, Davis feuds, Shiloh and Corinth commands, and the fading hero worship as Southern memory reshaped him into a myth. The piece critiques myth makers’ role in Beauregard’s legacy.
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Elmo Scott Watson
Fort Sumter
Confederate States of American
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
South
Lee
Mr. Basso
Robert Edward ‘Lee
Stonewall Jackson
Albert Sidney Johnston
Jeb Stuart
Beauregard
Jefferson
Davis
Louisiana
New York
Peugnet
Napoleon
United States Miliary Academy
West Point
Robert Anderson
Irvin McDowell
Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard
Bull Run Creek
Béauregard
Engineers Corps
Fort Adams
Rhode Island
Barataria Bay
Laure Villere
Contreras
Churubusco
Chaultepec
Lincoln
Loulelana
Union
Tecord
Centiate
Mississippi River Passage
Benjamin
Department of the West
Shiloh
Pittsburg
Johnston
Grant
Corinth
Sumter
Halleck
Braxton Bragg
Charleston
Secession
Petersburg
Joseph Johnston
Sherman
Jubal A
Octopus
Stuart
Western Newspaper Union