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He was a General for the Confederacy during the Civil War. He was also involved in the Mex-American War. Actually, Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard was the general who fired on Ft. Sumter, the action that started the Civil War. From Louisiana, Beauregard was a West Point graduate. A member of the engineer corps, he was sent to Mexico and fought with distinction at many of the major battles of the Mexican War. He resigned his commission with the Army of the United States in February of 1861. After capturing Ft. Sumter, Beauregard went on to command at the First Battle of Manassas (Bull Run), at Shiloh and at Petersburg, Virginia. He was in charge of the defense of Charleston, S.C. and the Military District of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. He commanded the forces in South Carolina and Georgia that were trying to stop Sherman on his March to the Sea and was joint commander with Joe Johnston against Sherman in North Carolina, where they finally surrendered their forces to Sherman in April of 1865.

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