Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard was a Louisiana-born general of the Confederate States Army. He had graduated second in his class from West Point in 1838 and was an admirer of Napoleon. He achieved fame early in the Civil War for commanding the Fort Sumter bombardment and as the victor of the first battle of Manassas. He later served in the Western Theater (including Shiloh and Corinth), Charleston, and the defense of Richmond, but his career was hampered by friction with Jefferson Davis and other generals.
This is one of approximately 1000 military telegrams in P.G.T. Beauregard’s papers at the Rosenbach.
Transcript:
Received at Oct 23 1862 at 3 o’clock pm
By telegraph from Richmond Va To Gen GT Beauregard
Do you mean Mitchell the Irish Patriot. Congratulate you on brilliant affair at Pocotaglio—Secty will allow accumulation of rice for subsistence—make your application for it. Getting ten in guns made now more rapidly.
J Packer Miles
Citation: J. Packer Miles, telegram to G. T. Beauregard. Richmond, 23 October 1862. AMs 1168/11