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Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard (May 28, 1818 – February 20, 1893) was an American military officer known as being the Confederate General who started the American Civil War at the battle of Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861. Today, he is commonly referred to as P. G. T. Beauregard, but he rarely used his first name as an adult.
May 24, 2024 · P.G.T. Beauregard was a Confederate general in the American Civil War. Beauregard graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York (1838), and served in the Mexican-American War (1846–48) under the command of Winfield Scott.
Dec 18, 2009 · P.G.T. Beauregard was a Civil War general who won at Fort Sumpter and the First Battle of Bull Run but also clashed with Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
Mar 16, 2024 · Confederate Army Officer. Fort Sumter. Southern officials commissioned Beauregard as the first brigadier general in the Confederate Army on March 1, 1861. He became an instant celebrity in the South when troops under his command fired on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, igniting the American Civil War.
Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard was a Louisiana-born author, civil servant, politician, inventor, and first prominent general for the Confederacy. Beauregard was trained as a civil engineer at the United States Military Academy and served with distinction as an engineer in the Mexican-American War.
May 6, 2018 · Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard (P.G.T. Beauregard) was an officer during the Civil War that served with distinction for the Confederate States of America. He was influential in the defense of Petersburg and South Carolina and was present during the firing on Fort Sumter.
Beauregard, P. G. T. (1818–1893), known as the “Great Creole,” became the Confederacy 's first field commander.A Louisianian, he graduated second of forty‐five in the U.S. Military Academy Class of 1838.
