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  1. 3 days ago · After Virginia voted overwhelmingly in favor of secession, Lee, acting as military adviser to Confederate Pres. Jefferson Davis, gathered two armies, one under Brig. Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard at Manassas Junction, the other at Harpers Ferry under Brig. Gen. Joseph E. Johnston.

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  2. 5 days ago · Albert Sidney Johnston P.G.T. Beauregard. The Confederate army at the Battle of Shiloh was the Army of Mississippi, commanded by General Albert Sidney Johnston, with General Pierre G. T. Beauregard as Johnston's second in command.

    • April 6-7, 1862
    • Union victory
  3. 2 days ago · Confederate Strategy. The Confederate commander at Manassas was Brig. Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard, the dapper, voluble hero of Fort Sumter, Napoleonic in manner and aspiration.

  4. 4 days ago · On June 15, the Union army attacked the Petersburg defenses. The 5,400 Confederate defenders of Petersburg under command of Brig. Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard were driven from their first line of entrenchments back to Harrison Creek. After dark, the XVIII Corps was relieved by the II Corps.

  5. 6 days ago · Consequently, Confederate Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard demanded that Robert Andersonthe U.S. Army commander of the post—surrender. Anderson offered to do so only after exhausting his supplies.

  6. 1 day ago · On the morning of April 6, 1862, Grant's troops were taken by surprise when the Confederates, led by Generals Albert Sidney Johnston and P. G. T. Beauregard, struck first "like an Alpine avalanche" near Shiloh church, attacking five divisions of Grant's army and forcing a confused retreat toward the Tennessee River.

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  8. 3 days ago · Gustave Toutant-Beauregard (1818-1893) was an American military officer known as being the Confederate General who started the American Civil War at the battle of Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861. Today, he is commonly referred to as P. G. T. Beauregard, but he rarely used his first name as an adult. He signed correspondence as G. T. Beauregard.