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Hace 5 días · Major-General Benjamin F. Butler’s 16,000 Federals from the Army of the James faced 18,000 Confederates under General P.G.T. Beauregard at Drewry’s Bluff, which guarded the approach to the Confederate capital of Richmond. Butler issued orders to attack at 6 a.m. but Beauregard planned to attack sooner, and he developed an ...
Hace 2 días · Confederate Strategy. The Confederate commander at Manassas was Brig. Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard, the dapper, voluble hero of Fort Sumter, Napoleonic in manner and aspiration. Heading the Confederate forces in the Shenandoah Valley was Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, a small, impeccably attired, ambitious but cautious man with a piercing gaze ...
Hace 5 días · Full access isn’t far. We can’t release more of our sound journalism without a subscription, but we can make it easy for you to come aboard. Get started for as low as $3.99 per month. ... The crisis reached a head when Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard ordered the first guns to fire, ...
Hace 5 días · She sent at least eight ciphers to General P. G. T. Beauregard regarding Union fortifications around Washington, D.C. Beauregard hoped to attack, and then capture, the Northern capital city. However, his plan was eventually labelled impractical and he was transferred to Tennessee when he started conflicts with other Confederate officers.
Hace 4 días · Confederate forces, commanded by Brig. Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard, had thrown up batteries on the harbor's shores north and south of Fort Sumter and trained guns on it from Forts Moultrie and Johnson. Fort Sumter mustered only 66 cannon, several unmounted. At 3:20 A.M., the crisis came to a head.
Hace 4 días · The Regiment was organized too late to participate in the Battle of Shiloh, but they did join Gen'l Pierre G. T. Beauregard's command at Corinth, Mississippi, following the battle, arriving there between 22 and 25 April, having marched through Selma to Mobile where they took a 5-day rail trip on the Mobile & Ohio Railroad. They ...
Hace 3 días · Crisp ink signature, "Approved, G. T. Beauregard, Genl. Cmdg," on an off-white 2.75 x 1.25 slip. In fine condition. Accompanied by an unsigned carte-de-visite portrait of Beauregard, published by E. & H. T. Anthony from a photographic negative in Brady's National Portrait Gallery.
