P.G.T. Beauregard Lambert M Surhone

Brief Description: "All parts of this book are extracted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"--T.p. verso. Brief Description: This biography of General P. G. T. Beauregard is composed in its entirety from articles found at the Wikipedia website. Publisher Marketing: High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard was a Louisiana-born American author, civil servant, politician, inventor, and the first prominent general of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Beauregard was trained as a civil engineer at the United States Military Academy and served with distinction as an engineer in the Mexican-American War. Following an extremely brief tenure as the superintendent of the Military Academy in 1861, he became the first Confederate brigadier general and commanded the defenses of Charleston, South Carolina, for the start of the Civil War at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861. Three months later he was the victor at the First Battle of Bull Run near Manassas, Virginia.