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General Beauregard Telegrams
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Finding aid created by: Michele Combs
Date: 28 Jun 2024
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Finding aid created by: Michele Combs
Date: 28 Jun 2024
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| Title: | General Beauregard Telegrams |
| Dates: | 1862-1865 |
| Quantity: | 0.25 linear ft. |
| Abstract: | Telegrams to General Beauregard, C.S.A., during the American Civil War |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: |
Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 https://library.syracuse.edu/special-collections-research-center |
Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard (1818-1893) was an American military officer. He attended the United States Military Academy at West Point and served in the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) and then as a member of the Army Corps of Engineers managing the Mississippi and Lake defenses in Louisiana. He is known for being the Confederate officer who started the American Civil War by firing on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861. He usually omitted his first name, signing correspondence as G.T. Beauregard.
Spanning 1862 to 1865, the General Beauregard Telegrams comprises sixty two telegrams received by Conederate States of America (CSA) Brigadier General P.G.T. Beauregard during the American Civil War.
Chronological
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Persons
Beauregard, G. T (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893.
Subjects
Armed Forces -- Officers.
Generals.
Places
Confederate States of America -- History, Military.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Genres and Forms
Telegrams.
Preferred Citation
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
General Beauregard Telegrams,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Libraries
Acquisition Information
Source and date of acquisition unknown/
Correspondence
| Correspondence | |||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | Telegrams 1862-1865 | ||||||||||