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Beauregard the Great Creole from Beauregard’s Civil War myth and rise
A biographical sketch of Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, the Confederate general once hailed as a hero. The article recounts the public adulation he received after Bull Run and Sumter, his later obscurity, and Hamilton Basso’s new Scribner biography that argues myth and tradition obscured his legacy.
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Fort Sumter
Confederate States of America
Confederate Congress
General Assembly
South Carolina
New Orleans
Montgomery
Ala
Richmond
Jefferson Davis
Manassas
Bull Run
Virginia
South
Confederates States of America
Pierre Gustave Tourant Beauregard
Charles Scribner’s Sons
Beauregard
Hamilton Basso
Basso
Lee
Mr. Basso
Robert Edward
Stonewall Jackson
Albert Sidney Johnston
Jeb Stuart
Jefferson
Tavis
Davis
Louwi- Siana
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
Louisiana
Contreras
Churubusco
Washington
Mississippi River
Good
Benjamin
Department of the West
Shiloh
Pittsburg
Johnston
Grant
Corinth
Sumter
Halleck
Braxton Bragg
Charleston
Petersburg
Joseph Johnston
Sherman
Jubal A. Barly
Stuart
Western Newspaper Union