P.G.T. Beauregard's Life
Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard was born in Louisiana. He accomplished being an author, civil servant, politician, inventor, and first prominent general for the Confederacy. He trained as a civil engineer at the U.S.M.A and served in the Mexican-American War. He became the first Confederate brigadier general and commanded the defenses of Charleston after experiencing a brief tenure of being a superintendent in 1863 in the Military Academy. Afterwards three years later he won a victory at the First Battle of Bull Run, Additionally, he commanded armies in the Western Theater, also in Tennessee the Battle of Shiloh, and the Siege of Corinth in Northern Mississippi. He defended Charleston from numerous naval and land attacks in 1863, but his greatest achievement was saving Petersburg, Virginia, and the Confederate capital of Richmond from assaults committed by Union Army forces June 1864. But, The Confederates Influenced strategies were marred by poor relations along with Jefferson Davis and the generals. Beauregard and his commander, Joseph E. Johnston, had Davis surrender the majority of the Confederate armies to Sherman in April 1865. P.G.T. Beauregard was one of the fewest wealthy veterans, Confederate, and he died in 1893 and was buried in New Orleans in the tomb of the Army of the Tennessee.