Tag Archives: Pierre Gustave Toutant 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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Laure “Doucette” Larendon: Beauregard’s Daughter

Posted on March 27, 2019 by Sean Michael Chick

Among P.G.T. Beauregard his closest friends was Charles Villeré, son of Jules Villeré, a sugar cane planter in Plaquemines Parish and a member of one of the most prominent Creole families in south Louisiana. Beauregard became smitten with Marie Laure … Continue reading →

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Race, Remembrance and Tourism in New Orleans

Posted on May 1, 2017 by ECW Guest Post

Today, we are pleased to welcome back guest author Sean Michael Chick In the wake of the Charleston shootings there was a renewed call to remove Confederate monuments throughout America. Few cities have seen this process play out in such … Continue reading →

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Confederate Generals and Racial Moderation

Posted on February 28, 2017 by ECW Guest Post

Today, we are pleased to welcome back guest author Sean Michael Chick When I volunteer at the Historic New Orleans Collection, I naturally prefer the room dealing with the Civil War and Reconstruction (a close second is the Battle of … Continue reading →

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An Honorable Beginning

Posted on February 25, 2016 by ECW Guest Post

Today, we are pleased to welcome back guest author Dwight Hughes April 13, 1861—the broad, brown Mississippi flood tugged at United States mail steamer Bienville as she lay alongside a New Orleans levee preparing to sail the next morning with … Continue reading →

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Hood and Forrest in Tennessee

Posted on November 14, 2014 by Dave Powell

The affair that eventually became known as Hood’s Tennessee Campaign, that cold agony of winter fighting and marching that remains perhaps the synonym for Civil War hardship, began on a sour note. John Bell Hood’s frustrations were three. Firstly, his … Continue reading →

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