Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies: P.G.T. Beauregard at Fort Sumter (Illustrated)

Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard was a Louisiana-born American military officer, politician, inventor, writer, civil servant, and 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 and signed correspondence as G. T. Beauregard.

Beauregard was trained as a civil engineer at the United States Military Academy and served with distinction as an engineer i...