P. G. T. Beauregard
P. G. T. Beauregard (Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard) was a talented US officer who served as a Confederate general. He also held many other titles such as a politician, inventor, and writer. Beauregard quit the US army in February and ordered of the Civil War during the bombardment of Fort Sumter in April 1861. Beauregard was necessary for the smooth victory at the First Battle of Bull Run, and in 1862 he served at the Battle of Shiloh and Siege of Corinth. Beauregard was responsible for designing the Confederate battle flag. He did not like his first name, so he gave it up entirely.
Pierre Gustave Toutant, Beauregard was born on May 28, 1818, in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana. Beauregard raised at sugarcane plantation …show more content…
For years after that, he was in charge of the Mississippi and Lake defenses in Louisiana. Much of his work in engineering was finished in different places. He repaired old forts and built new ones on the coast of Florida and in Alabama. Other than that, He improved the defenses of Forts St. Philip and Jackson on the Mississippi River.
When he served in New Orleans, Beauregard became unsatisfied with a peacetime officer. He informed the U.S. Army Engineer Department late in 1856 that he was going to join a filibuster, which is someone who engages in an unauthorized military expedition into a foreign country or territory to support a revolution. With William Walker, who had gained control of Nicaragua. He had also offered Beauregard the rank of second in command of his army.
After the Civil War, he went on to many different jobs, like the superintendent of New Orleans and as president of the New Orleans and Carrollton Street Railway. Beginning in 1877, for a while he was a supervisor of the Louisiana Lottery alongside and other Confederate General Jubal Early. Beauregard later served as the adjutant general of the Louisiana state military starting in 1879. In his last few years, he kept engaging in a feud with Jefferson Davis through his writings, which included a published personal account of the First Battle of Bull Run. He died in 1893 at the age of