P.G.T. Beauregard

General P. G. T. Beauregard
Birth name	Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard
Nickname(s)	"Little Creole" "Little Napoleon" "Bory" "Felix" "Hero of Fort Sumter"
Born	(1818-05-28)May 28, 1818 St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana
Died	February 20, 1893(1893-02-20) (aged 74) New Orleans, Louisiana
Buried at	Tomb of the Army of Tennessee, Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, Louisiana
Allegiance	United States (1838–1861)  Confederate States (1861–1865)
Service/branch	United States Army  Confederate States Army
Years of service	1838–1865
Rank	Brevet Major (USA) General (CSA)
Commands held	Army of the Potomac Army of Mississippi
Battles/wars	Mexican–American War Battle of Contreras Battle of Churubusco Battle for Mexico City Battle of Chapultepec American Civil War Battle of Fort Sumter First Battle of Bull Run Battle of Shiloh Siege of Corinth First Battle of Charleston Harbor First Battle of Fort Wagner Second Battle of Fort Wagner Second Battle of Charleston Harbor Second Battle of Fort Sumter Bermuda Hundred Campaign Second Battle of Petersburg Battle of Bentonville
Other work	Author, civil servant, politician, inventor
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Mexican–American War

American Civil War

P. G. T. Beauregard (born Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard; May 28, 1818 – February 20, 1893) was a Southern military officer, politician, inventor, writer, civil servant, and the first prominent general of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Today he is commonly referred to as P. G. T. Beauregard, but he rarely used his first name as an adult. He signed correspondence as G. T. Beauregard.

Trained as a civil engineer at the United States Military Academy, Beauregard served with distinction as an engineer in the Mexican–American War. Following a brief appointment as superintendent at West Point in 1861, after the South seceded he resigned from the United States Army and became the first brigadier general in the Confederate States Army. He commanded the defenses of Charleston, South Carolina, at the start of the Civil War at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861. Three months later he won the First Battle of Bull Run near Manassas, Virginia.

Beauregard commanded armies in the Western Theater, including at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee, and the Siege of Corinth in northern Mississippi. He returned to Charleston and defended it in 1863 from repeated naval and land attacks by Union forces. His greatest achievement was saving the important industrial city of Petersburg, Virginia, in June 1864, and thus the nearby Confederate capital of Richmond, from assaults by overwhelmingly superior Union Army forces.

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