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Beauregard and concentrate
Beauregard devised strategies to concentrate the forces of ( full ) General Joseph E. Johnston from the Shenandoah Valley with his own, aiming not only to defend his position, but to initiate an offensive against McDowell and Washington.
Butler's cautious advance gave Beauregard time to concentrate his forces.
Butler remained cautious, however, giving Beauregard time to concentrate his forces.

Beauregard and small
The SOG also maintains a small, full-time operational cadre stationed at the Marshals Service Tactical Operations Center at Camp Beauregard, LA.
During this period, Beauregard promoted innovative naval defense strategies, such as early experimentation with submarines, naval mines ( called " torpedoes " in the Civil War ), and with a small vessel called a torpedo-ram.
Beauregard successfully lobbied with Jefferson Davis's military adviser, Braxton Bragg, to prevent significant units of his small force from being transferred north of Richmond to the aid of Lee.
In Charleston Harbor, Army Captain Francis D. Lee, supported by General P. G. T. Beauregard, developed a small boat that would carry a spar torpedo.
Later, in front of an appliance store window, Beauregard, Gwenn and a small crowd, none of whom have TV sets yet, watch the radio quiz show-just transferred to the new medium of television-Masquerade for Money, whose sponsor is Milady Soap.
While Beauregard has been traditionally considered to be a small area near the crossroads of Alabama Highway 51 and Lee County Road 400, today most residents within a roughly 25 square mile ( 65 km < sup > 2 </ sup >) area surrounding the original community consider themselves to be in " Beauregard ".

Beauregard and forces
Bragg at least calmed the nerves of Beauregard and Polk who had become agitated by their apparent dire situation in the face of numerically superior forces before the arrival of Johnston on March 24, 1862.
Civic Buildings: Former Arsenal and Archives of the City of Genève, Former Crédit Lyonnais, Former Hôtel Buisson, Former Hôtel du Résident de France et Bibliothèque de la Société de lecture de Genève, Former école des arts industriels, Archives d ' État de Genève ( Annexe ), Bâtiment des forces motrices, Library de Genève, Library juive de Genève « Gérard Nordmann », Cabinet des estampes, Centre d ' Iconographie genevoise, Collège Calvin, Ecole Geisendorf, Hôpitaux universitaires de Genève ( HUG ), Hôtel de Ville et tour Baudet, Immeuble Clarté at Rue Saint-Laurent 2 and 4, Immeubles House Rotonde at Rue Charles-Giron 11 – 19, Immeubles at Rue Beauregard 2, 4, 6, 8, Immeubles at Rue de la Corraterie 10 – 26, Immeubles at Rue des Granges 2 – 6, Immeuble at Rue des Granges 8, Immeubles at Rue des Granges 10 and 12, Immeuble at Rue des Granges 14, Immeuble and Former Armory at Rue des Granges 16, Immeubles at Rue Pierre Fatio 7 and 9, House de Saussure at Rue de la Cité 24, House Des arts du Grütli at Rue du Général-Dufour 16, House Royale et les deux immeubles à côté at Quai Gustave Ador 44 – 50, Tavel House at Rue du Puits-St-Pierre 6, Turrettini House at Rue de l ' Hôtel-de-Ville 8 and 10, Brunswick Monument, Palais de Justice, Palais de l ' Athénée, Palais des Nations with library and archives of the SDN and ONU, Palais Eynard et Archives de la ville de Genève, Palais Wilson, Parc des Bastions avec Mur des Réformateurs, Place Neuve et Monument du Général Dufour, Pont de la Machine, Pont sur l ' Arve, Poste du Mont-Blanc, Quai du Mont-Blanc, Quai et Hôtel des Bergues, Quai Général Guisan and English Gardens, Quai Gustave-Ador and Jet d ' eau, Télévision Suisse Romande, university of Geneva, Victoria Hall
On March 1, Davis appointed General P. G. T. Beauregard to command all Confederate troops in the vicinity of Charleston, South Carolina, where state officials prepared to take possession of Fort Sumter ; Beauregard was to prepare his forces but avoid an attack on the fort.
During his command, Gen. Beauregard is noted for creating the battle flag of the army, which came to be the primary battle flag for all corps and forces under the Army of Northern Virginia.
Wilson ( although married ) had seen a great deal of Mrs. Greenhow, and while with her may have told her about the plans followed by Major General Irvin McDowell, which may have been part of the intelligence Mrs. Greenhow got to Confederate forces under Major General Pierre Beauregard.
While visiting his forces in Florida, which had just repelled a Union advance at Jacksonville, Beauregard received a telegram that his wife had died on March 2, 1864.
Confederate forces under Generals Albert Sidney Johnston and P. G. T. Beauregard launched a surprise attack on Grant there.
Beauregard, the first general officer of the newly formed Confederate States of America, was placed in command of Confederate forces in Charleston.
Beauregard took command of South Carolina forces in Charleston ; on March 1, President Jefferson Davis had appointed him the first general officer in the armed forces of the new Confederacy, specifically to take command of the siege.
Over the course of his first weeks in command, Beauregard sent to Confederate president Jefferson Davis various plans for an offensive against Union forces in northern Virginia, which usually involved coordination with Joseph E. Johnston's Army of the Shenandoah.
On July 18, as forces from the Union Department of Northeastern Virginia commanded by Irvin McDowell advanced to within a few miles of Beauregard's positions, the Confederate War Department ordered Johnston to transfer his army to reinforce Beauregard ; his army arrived by rail over the next few days.
On February 7, at a council of war held in the Covington Hotel in Bowling Green, he decided to abandon Western Kentucky by withdrawing Beauregard from Columbus, evacuate Bowling Green, and move his forces south of the Cumberland River at Nashville.
The war started when Confederate forces commanded by General P. G. T. Beauregard opened fire on the Union garrison of Fort Sumter in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina ; after a thirty-four hour bombardment, the Union garrison surrendered.
Beauregard, concentrated as many forces as he could near Corinth, Mississippi and attacked the Union Army of the Tennessee commanded by Major General Ulysses S. Grant near Shiloh Church.
Fearing that a full scale Union assault on the Confederate defenses was immanent, Beauregard evacuated Corinth during the night of May 29-30 without Halleck's forces finding out until the following morning.
Beauregard, urged Hood to take immediate action in an attempt to distract Sherman's advance, emphasizing the importance of moving before Thomas could consolidate his forces.
Beauregard, urged Hood to take immediate action in an attempt to distract Sherman's advance, emphasizing the importance of moving before Thomas could consolidate his forces.
Confederate forces under Beauregard attacked Butler's line near Ware Bottom Church.
Although he was able to distract Confederate forces for a brief time, their victories at Proctor's Creek and Ware Bottom Church enabled Beauregard to detach strong reinforcements for Lee's army in time for the fighting at Cold Harbor.

Beauregard and before
Beauregard's move to the west contributed to the movement of the Union commanders into action against the forts so they could act before, in their view, Beauregard could make a difference in the theater.
Political tensions mounted by early April and Beauregard demanded that Sumter surrender before a planned Union expedition to re-provision the fort could arrive.
After the war, Beauregard was reluctant to seek amnesty as a former Confederate officer by publicly swearing an oath of loyalty, but both Lee and Johnston counseled him to do so, which he did before the mayor of New Orleans on September 16, 1865.
Beauregard bottled up Benjamin Butler in the Bermuda Hundred Campaign, Pickett's division was detached in support of Robert E. Lee's operation in the Overland Campaign, just before the Battle of Cold Harbor, in which Pickett's division occupied the center of the defensive line, a place in which the main Union attack did not occur.
Under orders from Confederate States President Jefferson Davis, troops controlled by the Confederate government under the command of General P. G. T. Beauregard bombarded Fort Sumter on April 12 – 13, 1861, forcing its capitulation on April 14, 1861 before it could be reinforced and resupplied.
Soon Jefferson Davis ordered Beauregard to repeat the demand for Sumter's surrender, and if it did not, to reduce the fort before the relief expedition arrived.
Beginning south to north from U. S. 90 the highway crosses I-10 then through Moss Bluff and the community of Gillis before entering Beauregard Parish.
James Beauregard Beam ( 1864 – 1947 ) managed the family business before and after Prohibition, rebuilding the distillery in 1933 in Clermont, Kentucky, near his Bardstown home.
Beauregard, Nathan Bedford Forrest, and Judah P. Benjamin used the term " Civil War " both before and during the conflict.
Happy and Flame each come up with excuses for not marrying Gwenn and Beauregard before the last prize show, which deflates both siblings.
General Beauregard also appears in each of the books set before 1900, and is mentioned in some way in all but one of the others ( again, the exception is Blue Camellia ).

Beauregard and Sherman
Johnston surrendered most of the remaining armies of the Confederacy, including Beauregard and his men, to Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman.
His urgent dispatches to Richmond were treated with disbelief — Davis and Robert E. Lee ( now the general in chief of all the Confederate armies ) could not believe that Sherman was advancing without a supply line as quickly as Beauregard was observing him do.
Johnston and Beauregard met with President Davis on April 13 and their assessment of the Confederate situation helped convince Davis that Johnston should meet with Sherman to negotiate a surrender of his army.

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