Beauregard had drawn up plans for an attack on the Union left wing across Bull Run and convinced Johnston to approve the plan.

When the bill comes up for discussion, the blackmailed congressman immediately consents, and Congressman Beauregard, in a drunken stupor, consents to the bill declaring " I don't wanna fight no Union !".

Fozzie Bear is driving Kermit the Frog, Gonzo the Great, Camilla the Chicken, Animal, Rizzo the Rat and his fellow Rats, Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem, Scooter, Robin the Frog, Beauregard, Lew Zealand, Sam the Eagle, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, Beaker, Marvin Suggs, and the other chickens up to his mother Emily's farm for Christmas while they sing " We Need a Little Christmas.

Beauregard boards a boat for Europe and a quiet retirement, while Nobody takes up his own life of adventure.

Happy and Flame each come up with excuses for not marrying Gwenn and Beauregard before the last prize show, which deflates both siblings.

A day after the National Guard ( from Camp Beauregard ) began delivering food, water and ice in New Orleans, the National President of the American Red Cross, Marsha Evans, requested to set up a shelter in New Orleans to pass out food and water.

Beauregard, Nathan Bedford Forrest, and Judah P. Benjamin used the term " Civil War " both before and during the conflict.

Butler remained cautious, however, giving Beauregard time to concentrate his forces.

The Home Guards retreated to the city with heavy losses, but by this time Beauregard had been able to bring reinforcements from Richmond to bear: the 4th North Carolina Cavalry, part of the 7th Confederate States Cavalry from the Bermuda Hundred line, and an artillery battery.

* Beauregard, G. T. The Campaign of Shiloh.

Beauregard designated Forrest's cavalry for assignment to Hood's Army of Tennessee for the Franklin-Nashville Campaign.

Beauregard did send a division ( Maj. Gen. Robert Hoke's ) to Lee for the Battle of Cold Harbor, but Lee urgently wanted more and took the step of offering Beauregard command of the right wing of the Army of Northern Virginia for his cooperation.

Beauregard, who was supposed to attract recruits because of his victories early in the war and give Johnston a competent subordinate.

Gen. Beauregard arrived at Johnston's headquarters at Bowling Green on February 4, 1862 and was given overall command of Polk's force at the western end of Johnston's line at Columbus, Kentucky.

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.

At the end of the day, the Union Army was largely vulnerable, and subject to elimination by Beauregard, had he been able to continue the fight, but for the exhaustion of his troops.

Beauregard, in charge of Petersburg, was able to defend the city and Lee's veteran reinforcements arrived.

The depot was a warehouse on Beauregard Street, where the troops had stacked some 200 tons of shells and powder.

Beauregard at Manassas, where he was given command of a brigade of three Virginia regiments — the 1st, 11th, and 17th Virginia Infantry regiments.

Beauregard continued commanding these troops as the new First Corps under Gen. J. E. Johnston as it was joined by the Army of the Shenandoah on July 20, 1861, when command was relinquished to General J. E. Johnston.

Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard (; May 28, 1818 – February 20, 1893 ) 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.

Beauregard was trained as a civil engineer at the United States Military Academy and served with distinction as an engineer in the Mexican-American War.

Beauregard was born at the " Contreras " sugar-cane plantation in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, about outside New Orleans, to a Creole family.

Beauregard was the third child of Jacques Toutant-Beauregard, of French and Welsh lineage, and Hélène Judith de Reggio Toutant-Beauregard, a descendant of an Italian noble family that had migrated to France.

One of his instructors was Robert Anderson, who would later become the commander of Fort Sumter and surrender to Beauregard at the start of the Civil War.

Beauregard considered his contributions in dangerous reconnaissance missions and devising strategy for his superiors to be more significant than those of his engineer colleague, Captain Robert E. Lee, so he was disappointed when Lee and other officers received more brevets than he did.

As it was sinking unevenly in the moist soil of Louisiana, Beauregard had to develop a renovation program.

He informed the U. S. Army Engineer Department late in 1856 that he was going to join the filibuster William Walker, who had seized control of Nicaragua ; he had offered Beauregard the rank of second-in-command of his army.

Beauregard was narrowly defeated.

" Beauregard wrote to the first Confederate capital of Montgomery, Alabama, that Anderson was a " most gallant officer ".

For a while, Beauregard persisted in moving his troops for an attack on his right flank ( McDowell's left, toward Centreville ), but Johnston urged him to travel with him to the threatened flank at Henry House Hill, which was weakly defended.

Having become a political liability in Virginia, Beauregard was transferred to Tennessee to become second-in-command to General Albert Sidney Johnston ( no relation to Joseph E. Johnston ) in his Army of Mississippi, effective March 14, 1862.

Beauregard believed that the battle was essentially won and his men could finish off Grant in the morning.

" Beauregard was ordered to Charleston and took command of coastal defenses in South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, replacing Maj. Gen. John C. Pemberton.

Beauregard was unhappy with his new assignment, believing that he deserved command of one of the great Confederate field armies.

Late in June 1861, Bartow received orders to move his troops to the outskirts of Manassas to support General P. G. T. Beauregard.

" Major Robert Anderson at Fort Sumter wrote to Washington, D. C., that Beauregard, who had been his student at West Point in 1837, would guarantee that South Carolina's actions be exercised with " skill and sound judgment.

Beauregard also proposed a grand strategy — submitted anonymously through his political allies so that it was not tainted by his reputation — to reinforce the Western armies at the expense of Robert E. Lee's army in Virginia, destroy the Federal army in Tennessee, which would induce Ulysses S. Grant to relieve pressure on Vicksburg and maneuver his army into a place where it could be destroyed.

After the fall of Atlanta in September 1864, President Davis considered replacing John Bell Hood in command of the Army of Tennessee and he asked Robert E. Lee to find out if Beauregard would be interested.

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.

Standing at the center are Stonewall Jackson, P. G. T. Beauregard, and Robert E. Lee, surrounded by bust portraits of Jefferson Davis and Confederate Army officers.

Current members of Alcor include nanotechnology pioneer Eric Drexler, Internet pioneer Ralph Merkle, engineer Keith Henson and his family, MIT professor Marvin Minsky, aging researcher Aubrey de Grey, mathematician Edward O. Thorp, computer security CEO Kenneth Weiss, casino owner Don Laughlin, inventor Ray Kurzweil, film director Charles Matthau, futurists Max More and Natasha Vita-More, entrepreneurs Saul Kent, Luke Nosek, Magali & Stephan Beauregard and Future Electronics founder Robert Miller.

A 1974 film version of the musical starred Lucille Ball, Bea Arthur as Vera and Robert Preston as Beauregard.

On the Confederate side, Brady photographed Jefferson Davis, P. G. T. Beauregard, Stonewall Jackson, James Longstreet, Lord Lyons, James Henry Hammond, and Robert E. Lee ( Lee's first session with Brady was in 1845 as a lieutenant colonel in the U. S. Army, his final after the war in Richmond, Virginia ).

That same day he delivered an ultimatum from Beauregard to Union Maj. Robert Anderson, demanding the evacuation of Fort Sumter, which was refused and after bombardment the fort fell on April 14, precipitating the start of the Civil War.

" While serving as an aide to General Beauregard during the bombardment of Fort Sumter, and without authorization, he rowed a skiff out to the island fort and demanded its surrender from Major Robert Anderson.

There were five company grade officers in Scott's corp of engineers who were of significant historical interest ; Captain Robert E. Lee, Captain George B. McClellan, Captain Joseph E. Johnston, Lieutenant John G. Foster and Lieutenant P. G. T. Beauregard.

Miles remained on the farm and helped friends like Beauregard and former fire-eater Robert Rhett gather materials for their own histories of the Confederacy.