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Beauregard the Great Creole in Civil War Legend
A profile of Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, the Confederate general once hailed as a hero after Bull Run and Manassas, then fading from memory. The piece notes his West Point life, battles at Shiloh and Charleston, complex relation with Jefferson Davis, and a postwar myth-making wave before his death. It cites Hamilton Basso’s new Scribner’s biography Be auregard the Great Creole as a corrective to the legend.
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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
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
Jefferson
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
Chaultepec
Lincoln
Benjamin
Department of the West
Shiloh
Pittsburg
Johnston
Grant
Corinth
Sumter
Halleck
Braxton Bragg
Charleston
Secession
Petersburg
Joseph Johnston
Sherman
Jubal A. Early
Octopus
Stuart
Western Newspaper Union