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Beauregard the Great Creole and the fading Confederate idol
A biographical sketch of Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, once hailed as a Southland hero after Fort Sumter and Manassas, whose fame faded with time. The article reviews his rise from West Point to Confederate command, clashes with Jefferson Davis, late victories at Corinth and Petersburg, and his postwar notoriety with the Louisiana lottery.
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Fort Sumter
Confederate States of America
Confederate Congress
General Assembly of South
Cuiseng
New Orleans
Montgomery
Als
Tie
Itichmond
Jefferson Davis
Richmond
Manassas
Bull Ron
Virginia
Washington
Charles Scribner's Sons
Beauregard
Hamilton Basso
Mr. Basso
Lee
Leta
Robert Edward Lee
Stonewall Jackson
Albert Sidney Johnston
Jeb Btuart
Jefferson
Davis
South
Gesurecard
Louisiana
New York
Peugnet
Napoleon
United States Military Academy
West Point
Robert Anderson
Irvin McDowell
Pierre Gustave Toutant Geauregard
Dallton Creek
Yvirginia
Deauregard
Engineers Corps
Fort Adams
Rhode Island
Parataria Bay
Laure Villere
Contreras
Churubuses
Chaultepec
Lincoln
Mississippi River
Benjamin
Ife
Department of the West
Shiloh
Pittsburg
Johnston
Grant
Corinth
Sumter
Pictor
Halleck
Braxton Bragg
Charleston
Petersburg
Darls
Joseph Johnston
Sherman
Sone Ian
Jubal A. Barly
Pierre Gustave Tourant Beauregard
Octopus
Stuart