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 Weldon May 3 1864 at 12 o’clock 30 minutes
By telegraph from Richmond 3 To Gen Beauregard
Please request your signal officer to use more care in preparation of cipher messages. In every instance they have been translated only after the greatest trouble & delay.
Frank Barker
Capt. in chg signal corps
Citation: Frank Barker, telegram to G. T. Beauregard. Richmond, 3 May 1864. AMs 1168/11
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