P. G. T. Beauregard
P. G. T. Beauregard
Beauregard held several key commands in the Western Theater, including control of armies at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee, and the Siege of Corinth in northern Mississippi, both in 1862. He returned to Charleston and defended it in 1863 from repeated naval and land attacks by Union forces. He is most known for his defense of the industrial city of Petersburg, Virginia, from Union troops in June 1864, which delayed the eventual fall of the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia in April 1865.
P. G. T. Beauregard
His influence over Confederate strategy was lessened by his poor professional relationships with President Jefferson Davis and other senior generals and officials. In April 1865, Beauregard and his commander, General Joseph E. Johnston, convinced Davis and the remaining cabinet members that the war needed to end. Johnston surrendered most of the remaining armies of the Confederacy, including Beauregard and his men, to Union Major General) William Tecumseh Sherman.
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!Pierre G. T. Beauregard as a young man, painting by [Richard Clague](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/PGTBeauregardbyRichardClague.jpg/250px-PGTBeauregardbyRichardClague.jpg)
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