The First Confederate Hero: The Life and Career of P.G.T. Beauregard

“On the refusal of Major Anderson to engage, in compliance with my demand, to designate the time when he would evacuate Fort Sumter, and to agree meanwhile not to use his guns against us, at 3.20 o'clock in the morning of the 12th instant I gave him formal notice that within one hour my batteries would open on him.” – P.G.T. Beauregard’s Official Report on Fort Sumter

Despite the fact that the Civil War was fought nearly 150 years ago, it remains a polarizing topic for the country to this ...