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P. G. T. Beauregard (1815–1893)
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During the secession crises of early 1861, Pierre
G. T. Beauregard never entertained doubts about
resigning from the U.S. Army should his native state
of Louisiana leave the Union. Consequently, he served
only five days in his new assignment as superintendent
of West Point. Shortly thereafter he was commissioned
a brigadier general in the Confederate army. Assigned
command of rebel forces in Charleston, South Carolina,
Beauregard carried out the orders for the bombardment
of Fort Sumter. That success earned him a field
command of one of the two armies that would later
form the redoubtable Army of Northern Virginia.
Together with his senior officer, General Joseph
E. Johnston, Beauregard would win the First Battle
of Manassas. In doing so he defeated his fellow
West Point classmate General Irvin McDowell. |
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Charles DeForest Fredricks (1823–1894)
Albumen silver print, 1862
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
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