GENERAL BEAUREGARD.

Otago Witness, Issue 988, 5 November 1870, Page 16

GENERAL BEAUREGARD.

The mail telegrams state that General Beauregard was about to raise a force in Southern France. His name is well known in connection with the civil war in America, and more especially with the siege of Charleston, which he successfully defended throughout the war. We take the following sketch of his career from " Men of the Time" :—

Beauregard, General Peter Gustavo Toussaint, in the service of the Confederate States of America, was born in 1821. Hiß family, of French extraction, at one time settled, in Canada, whence his father migrated to New Orleans. In 1834, Beauregard entered the Military Academy at West Point, where he graduated in 1838, receiving a commission in the United States Artillery, from which he was transferred to the Engineers. Having distinguished himself in the Mexican campaign, in which he was twice wounded, he was highly spoken of in General Scott's despatches for his gallantry during this contest. In 1853 he was appointed, as Captain of Engineers, to the duty of surveying the coast fortifications, and later became superintendent of the Academy at West Point. In 1861, having resigned his commission in the United States army, and joined that of the Confederate States, he commenced the civil war by the bombardment of Fort Sumter, April 12th. He also commanded the Southern army at the Battle of Bull Run, July 21st, 1861, in which the Federals experienced so disastrous a reverse. For this Bervice jhe waß made General. He was second in command at the battle of Shiloh, April 6th, 1862, and in 1863 successfully defenied Charleston against the combined naval and military forces of the Federals, during a siege which, for heroism and tenacity of purpose, must occupy a prominent place in history. After the capture of Richmond, he surrendered to Sherman in April, 1865.