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File Name	Q250
Digital image order form	http://www.archives.alabama.gov/photo_order_form.pdf
Permission to publish form	http://www.archives.alabama.gov/referenc/private2.pdf
Item Title	General P. G. T. Beauregard, C.S.A.
Description	(Uniform in photograph does not indicate rank; photo taken on March 31, 1861. -- W. Davis) Graduated from West Point, 1838; Mexican War veteran. Appointed Superintendent of West Point in January 1861 but held the post for only a few days; resigned from the U.S. Army in February 1861. Appointed a brigadier general in the Confederate Army and assigned to command the Confederate forces at Charleston. After Fort Sumter, Beauregard was given command of the Confederate forces near Manassas and promoted to full general after First Manassas. Major campaigns and battles include First Manassas, Shiloh, Drewry's Bluff, Petersburg, and the Carolinas. After the war, Beauregard was a railroad executive, supervisor of the Louisiana Lottery, commissioner of public works in New Orleans, and a writer. Beauregard died in February 1893 and is buried in New Orleans. Sources: Boatner, Mark M. The Civil War Dictionary. New York: Vintage Books, 1988. Davis, William C., ed. The Confederate General. Vol. I. National Historical Society, 1991.
Date	1861 Mar 31
Email ADAH	Do you have information or questions about this image? Click here to email us: mailto:photos.archives@archives.alabama.gov and please include file name (located below image) or the hyperlink of the image.
Time Period	1860-1869
Subject	Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant, 1818-1893 Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Louisiana United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Type	Still image
Format	Photographs Cartes-de-visite Studio portraits
Author	Pollard, Charles T.
Collection or Series Title	Charles T. Pollard Confederate officers photograph album
Box Number	LPP40, #09
Catalog Record	http://adahcat.archives.alabama.gov:81/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=8539
Repository	Alabama Dept. of Archives and History, 624 Washington Ave., Montgomery, AL 36130
Language	English
Rights	This material may be protected under U. S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S. Code) which governs the making of photocopies or reproductions of copyrighted materials. You may use the digitized material for private study, scholarship, or research. Though ADAH has physical ownership of the material in its collections, in some cases we may not own the copyright to the material. It is the patron's obligation to determine and satisfy copyright restrictions when publishing or otherwise distributing materials found in our collections.
Digital Format	600 dpi tiff
Project Name	Confederate officers Cornerstone Project
Date created	2008-05-14

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