KPLC: Beauregard Parish officials propose new 500-bed jail funded by sales tax continuation
BEAUREGARD PARISH, La. (KPLC) - Beauregard Parish officials are proposing a new jail that would hold 500 inmates, funded through a quarter-cent sales tax continuation. The proposed jail would be ...
Beauregard Parish officials propose new 500-bed jail funded by sales tax continuation
P. G. T. Beauregard ... Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard ( – ) was an American military officer known for being the Confederate general who started the American Civil War at the battle of Fort Sumter on . Today, he is commonly referred to as P. G. T. Beauregard, but he rarely used his first name as ...
P.G.T. Beauregard was a Confederate general in the American Civil War. Beauregard graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York (1838), and served in the Mexican-American War (1846–48) under the command of Winfield Scott.
Beauregard, later transferred to the Western Theatre because of his disagreements with President Jefferson Davis and other leading Confederates, commanded at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee and the Siege of Corinth in northern Mississippi.
Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard was a Louisiana-born author, civil servant, politician, inventor, and first prominent general for the Confederacy. 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.
Following the First Battle of Bull Run, P. G. T. Beauregard publicly criticized Confederate President Jefferson Davis’s war strategy, resulting in a personality conflict between the two men that lasted to the end of their lives and that probably stunted Beauregard’s military career.