During this time Beauregard also mounted a failed bid to be mayor of New Orleans in In January Beauregard secured an appointment as superintendent of West Point but was dismissed from the job after only a few days, most likely because of his perceived sympathy for the Southern cause.
Beauregard then resigned from the U. In this role he ordered the first shots of the Civil War during the bombardment of Fort Sumter April , He was then promoted to full general—a rank achieved by only seven other Confederate officers during the Civil War. This allowed the Union Army to gain reinforcements and then launch a counterattack that drove the Confederates from the field.
Faced with a Union force twice the size of his own, Beauregard elected to withdraw to Tupelo, Mississippi, in May Beauregard was then placed in command of the coastal defenses of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida , and supervised the defense of Charleston throughout and early During this time Beauregard implemented many innovative defensive strategies—including the use of mines and submarines—and managed to hold Charleston against repeated attacks by Union navy vessels and ironclads.
In this capacity he was successful in withstanding an offensive by a much larger Union force during the Second Battle of Petersburg in June His actions forced the Union Army into what would become a month siege of the city and halted an offensive that would have likely resulted in the capture of the Confederate capital of Richmond.
Beauregard was limited to an advisory role and was ultimately unsuccessful in halting Union General William T. Beauregard was eventually replaced in his command by General Joseph E. Johnston, and the two later surrendered to Sherman in North Carolina in April Beginning in he worked as a supervisor of the Louisiana Lottery along with fellow former Confederate General Jubal Early.
Beauregard would later serve as the adjutant general of the Louisiana state militia starting in In his later years Beauregard continued to engage in a long-running feud with Jefferson Davis through his published writings, which included a personal account of the First Battle of Bull Run. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! Subscribe for fascinating stories connecting the past to the present.
Joseph E. Johnston was a U. After Johnston was killed during the first day of battle at Shiloh, Tenn. Since Union reinforcements had arrived already, his decision did not cost a victory, as some persons later charged.
Beauregard withdrew the Confederate Army on April 7 in the face of counterattacks from the larger Federal force. In January Beauregard temporarily drove off the blockaders at Charleston and in April defeated an attack on the harbor by Federal ironclads. His garrison lost Battery Wagner after a lengthy defense but withstood a heavy bombardment and a boat attack on Fort Sumter during the summer and fall.
He had concentrated his troops by May 16 to drive back a Union force near Richmond, Va. From June 15 to 17 Beauregard defended Petersburg, the railroad center for Richmond, against units of Gen. Ulysses Grant's army until the Confederacy's Robert E. Lee realized Grant's intentions and moved his troops to save the town. In October, Beauregard accepted direction of Confederate military affairs in the West. He tried with little success to gather troops and oppose Gen.
Johnston in February Beauregard, as Johnston's second in command, surrendered in April. After the war Beauregard considered several foreign military offers but remained in the South to serve as president of the New Orleans, Jackson, and Great Northern Railroad and of the New Orleans and Carrollton streetcar line, which he revitalized.
He lost control of both companies but continued until his death as a commissioner of the highly profitable Louisiana lottery. Through articles and memoirs he engaged in postwar disputes about wartime events with Davis and several Confederate generals. He participated in an abortive attempt to create a third political party an alliance of businessmen and African Americans during Reconstruction in Louisiana and served as state adjutant general from to The range was commissioned on October 27, eight miles southeast of Merryville, approximately 20 miles south of the airbase, on the Merryville — Neches Belle Steamboat.
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