Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard

Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard was a Confederate general who directed the bombardment of Fort Sumter, which marked the outbreak of the American Civil War. He led major forces in the First Battle of Bull Run and the Battle of Shiloh, demonstrating exceptional defensive tactics rooted in his background as an engineer. After the war, he served successively as a railroad company president and corporate executive in Louisiana, making significant contributions to infrastructure development and regional industrialization. He left an important footprint as a post-war businessman and civil engineer during the Reconstruction era.

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Year	Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard
1818	Birth of Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard (Period: May 28, 1818, Location: Chalmette area (St. Bernard Parish), Louisiana, United States)
1834	West Point admission and graduation (Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, Age: 15 years old, Period: 1834–1838, Location: West Point, New York)
1841	Marriage (Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, Marie Antoinette Laure Villeré, Age: 22 years old, Period: 1841, Location: New Orleans, Louisiana)
1846	Mexican-American War (Age: 27 years old, Period: 1846–1848, Location: Northern Mexico, Coahuila, etc.)
1858	Drainage and flood control projects in New Orleans (Age: 39 years old, Period: 1858–1861, Location: New Orleans, Louisiana)
1860	Marriage (Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, Marguerite Caroline Deslonde, Age: 41 years old, Period: 1860, Location: New Orleans, Louisiana)
1861	American Civil War (Age: 42 years old, Period: 1861–1865, Location: North Carolina, Virginia, etc.) Conflict with Jefferson Davis (Age: 42 years old, Period: 1861–1865, Location: Various locations across the Confederacy) Appointment as Superintendent of West Point and brief resignation (Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, Age: 42 years old, Period: January 23 – January 28, 1861, Location: West Point, New York) Appointment as the first brigadier general in the Confederate Army (Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, Age: 42 years old, Period: March 1, 1861, Location: Confederate States) Bombardment of Fort Sumter (Age: 42 years old, Period: April 12–13, 1861, Location: Charleston Harbor, South Carolina)
1862	Command controversy after Shiloh (Age: 43 years old, Period: April–June 1862, Location: Shiloh, Tennessee and Corinth, Mississippi) Siege of Corinth (Age: 43 years old, Period: April–May 1862, Location: Corinth, Mississippi) Battle of Shiloh (Age: 43 years old, Period: April 6–7, 1862, Location: Shiloh, Tennessee)
1863	Defense of Charleston (Age: 44 years old, Period: 1863–1864, Location: Charleston, South Carolina) Operational support for the H.L. Hunley submarine (Age: 44 years old, Period: 1863, Location: Charleston, South Carolina)
1864	Battle of Drewry's Bluff (Age: 45 years old, Period: May 15, 1864, Location: Drewry's Bluff, Virginia) Defense of Petersburg (Age: 46 years old, Period: June 15–18, 1864, Location: Petersburg, Virginia)
1865	Carolinas Campaign and the Battle of Bentonville (Age: 46 years old, Period: March–April 1865, Location: North Carolina) Efforts toward ending the Civil War (Age: 46 years old, Period: April 1865, Location: North Carolina)
1870	Involvement in the Louisiana Lottery (Age: 51 years old, Period: 1870s–1880s, Location: New Orleans, Louisiana)
1893	Death of Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard (Age: 74 years old, Period: February 20, 1893)

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