Tag Archives: PGT Beauregard

Thinking Big on a Battlefield

Posted on April 6, 2021 by Kevin Pawlak

After the bloody fighting ended around Pittsburg Landing on April 6, 1862, Gen. Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, recently appointed commander of the Army of the Mississippi following Albert Sidney Johnston’s death earlier that day, took stock of his army’s hard … Continue reading →

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Wah-Who-Eeee! … And The War Came to the Rebels, Part 2

Posted on April 18, 2019 by Meg Groeling

Author Margaret Mitchel wrote her version of the sound of the rebel yell as “Wah-Who-Eeee,” and that was the sound heard throughout the Southern states when Confederate general P. G. T. Beauregard opened his well-prepared cannon on shabby little Fort … Continue reading →

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Mexican-American War 170th: Siege of Vera Cruz

Posted on March 29, 2017 by Ryan Quint

Morning of March 29, 1847 came and brought two long parallel lines of American troops. The soldiers, begrimed and dirty from the exertions of the past 20 days, formed a gauntlet that their defeated foe would march through. The rows … Continue reading →

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