1860\'S CIVIL WAR CONFEDERATE GENERAL BEAUREGARD VICTORIAN TRADE CARD PRANG & CO.
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1860\'S CIVIL WAR CONFEDERATE GENERAL BEAUREGARD VICTORIAN TRADE CARD PRANG & CO.:
$34.99
Original Victorian Trade card from the 1860\'s Civil War period. Nice illustration of Confederate General Beauregard.. The card measures about 4 and inches tall and about 2 and one-half inches wide. Printed by L. Prang & Co. Boston.
Nice condition except for paper toning/stains. No creases. No tape. No thin spots. No pin holes.
From Wikipedia:
Pierre-Gustave Toutant de Beauregard (May 28, 1818 – February 20, 1893) was an American military officer who was the first prominent general of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Today, he is commonly referred to as P. G. T. Beauregard, but he rarely used his first name as an adult. He signed correspondence as G. T. Beauregard.
Trained as a civil engineer at the United States Military Academy, Beauregard served with distinction as an engineer in the Mexican–American War. Following a brief appointment as superintendent at West Point in 1861, after the South 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 Civil War at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861. Three months later he won the First Battle of Bull Run near Manassas, Virginia.
Beauregard commanded armies in the Western Theater, including at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee, and the Siege of Corinth in northern Mississippi. He returned to Charleston and defended it in 1863 from repeated naval and land attacks by Union forces. His greatest achievement was saving the important industrial city of Petersburg, Virginia, in June 1864, and thus the nearby Confederate capital of Richmond, from assaults by overwhelmingly superior Union Army forces.
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 Major General William Tecumseh Sherman. Following his military career, Beauregard returned to Louisiana, where he advocated for Black civil rights and Black suffrage, served as a railroad executive, and became wealthy as a promoter of the Louisiana Lottery.
Beauregard\'s military writings include Principles and Maxims of the Art of War (1863), Report on the Defense of Charleston, and A Commentary on the Campaign and Battle of Manassas (1891). He was the uncredited co-author of his friend Alfred Roman\'s The Military Operations of General Beauregard in the War Between the States (1884). He contributed the article \"The Battle of Bull Run\" to Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine in November 1884. During these years, Beauregard and Davis published a series of bitter accusations and counter-accusations retrospectively blaming each other for the Confederate defeat.
Beauregard served as adjutant general for the Louisiana state militia, 1879–88. In 1888, he was elected as commissioner of public works in New Orleans. When John Bell Hood and his wife died in 1879, leaving ten destitute orphans, Beauregard used his influence to get Hood\'s memoirs published, with all proceeds going to the children. He was appointed by the governor of Virginia to be the grand marshal of the festivities associated with the laying of the cornerstone of Robert E. Lee\'s statue in Richmond. But when Jefferson Davis died in 1889, Beauregard refused the honor of heading the funeral procession, saying \"We have always been enemies. I cannot pretend I am sorry he is gone. I am no hypocrite.\"
Beauregard died in his sleep in New Orleans. The cause of death was recorded as \"heart disease, aortic insufficiency, and probably myocarditis.\" Edmund Kirby Smith, the last surviving full general of the Confederacy, served as the \"chief mourner\" as Beauregard was interred in the vault of the Army of Tennessee in historic Metairie Cemetery.
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1860\'S CIVIL WAR CONFEDERATE GENERAL BEAUREGARD VICTORIAN TRADE CARD PRANG & CO.:
$34.99