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Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard (May 28, 1818 – February 20, 1893) was a Confederate general officer who initiated fighting during the War Between the States by leading the attack on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861. Today, he is commonly referred to as P. G. T. Beauregard, but he rarely used his first name as an adult signing all correspondence as G. T. Beauregard. Trained in military and civil engineering at the United States Military Academy at West Point, Beauregard served with distinction as an engineer officer in the Mexican American War. Following a brief appointment as superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy in 1861, and after Louisiana seceded, he resigned from the United States Army and became the first brigadier general in the Confederate States Army. He commanded the defenses of Charleston, South Carolina, at the start of the war at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861.
He would become the second most victorious General in the Confederate Army but only remembered for his loss at Shiloh. He would become embroiled in a fued with Confederate President Jefferson Davis that would hamper his career and last until both of their deaths.
Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard (May 28, 1818 – February 20, 1893) was a Confederate general officer who initiated fighting during the War Between the States by leading the attack on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861. Today, he is commonly referred to as P. G. T. Beauregard, but he rarely used his first name as an adult signing all correspondence as G. T. Beauregard. Trained in military and civil engineering at the United States Military Academy at West Point, Beauregard served with distinction as an engineer officer in the Mexican American War. Following a brief appointment as superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy in 1861, and after Louisiana seceded, he resigned from the United States Army and became the first brigadier general in the Confederate States Army. He commanded the defenses of Charleston, South Carolina, at the start of the war at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861.
He would become the second most victorious General in the Confederate Army but only remembered for his loss at Shiloh. He would become embroiled in a fued with Confederate President Jefferson Davis that would hamper his career and last until both of their deaths.