- Collection:
- America's Turning Point: Documenting the Civil War Experience in Georgia
- Title:
- Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard carte-de-visite circa 1860s
- Creator:
- Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893
- Date of Original:
- 1860/1869
- Subject:
- Confederate States of America. Army--Officers
Quinby and Company - Location:
- United States, Southern States, 33.346678, -84.119434
- Medium:
- cartes-de-visite (card photographs)
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/x-djvu
application/pdf - Description:
- This collection contains a carte-de-visite image of Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard in uniform. Prior to donation, the item was misidentified on the verso as General William Joseph Hardee. The imaged is attributed to Quinby and Company on the verso.
Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard was born in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana in 1818. He graduated from West Point in 1838 and went on to become the first prominent Confederate general during the Civil War. During the Civil War he ordered the firing on Fort Sumter new Charleston, South Carolina, was second in command at the first battle of Bull Run, Virginia, and was charged with the defense of the South Carolina and Georgia coast against Union attacks from 1862-1864. At the close of the war in April 1865, he and Joseph E. Johnston surrendered to General Sherman near Durham, North Carolina. Beauregard was known as "Napoleon in Gray" and died in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1893.
America's Turning Point: Documenting the Civil War Experience in Georgia received support from a Digitizing Historical Records grant awarded to the Atlanta History Center, Georgia Historical Society, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and the Digital Library of Georgia by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:dlg_turningpoint_ghs1761-001
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/ghs/turningpoint/do:ghs1761-001
- Language:
- eng
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia Historical Society
- Rights:
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