The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-04-25

Tower Of The engineer corps, on duty at diff.
ferent times within my line of operations. To
the great activity, skill, Judgment and daring
Of this valuable corps of officers is the service
and the nation indebted for the success of our
army on other as well as on the present occa.
sion; and the fact that, without exception,
they were all wounded during the brilliant op.
erations of the day, places them before the ar.
my and their country as among the most de.
lor has shed bright halo of glory around the
American arms. invite the attention of the
General.in- Chief to the report of Lieutenant
Beauregard, whose untiring energy and indom.
liable perseverance dnring the night of the
18th, repaired the works of batteries Nos.
thunder to Chapultepec, the monarch fortifca.
ton of the Valley ofMexico.
General Quitman reports:
Lieutenant Tower had been wounded. 1t
was, therefore, fortunate that, in the COM
ant Beauregard of the engineers Joined me.
was enabled during the day to avail myself of
his valuable services, and, although disabled
for a time by wound received during the day,
he superintended during the whO'e night the
erection of two batteries within the garita of
our heavy guns and breastwork on our right
for infantry, which, with his advice, had de.
termined to construct.
Mr.. John L. Smith, of the engineers, re~
ports:
Lieutenant Beauregard had been assigned
for duty with General Twiggs' division on the
18th. He joined this division at this time
Q3th), and continued with it until the city was
occupied by our troops on the 18th, when he
was relieved from duty, as he suffered from
slight wounds in the side and thigh received
on the 18th.
For gallant and meritorious conduct in
the battle of Chapultepec, Beauregard was
brevetted Major, September ID, l847. He
was twice wounded, as is seen above one
or both of these wounds were received at
the Belin Gate. After the Mexican war
Beauregard was again assigned the duty
upon the Notifications along our coast. In
March, 1853, be was commissioned cap.
tain of engineers. The Secretary of War
reported, from 1856 to 1860, that the de-
fences at Proctor's Landing, Lake Borge,
Louisiana, and Forts Jackson and St Phil
Up, at the mouth of the Mississippi, were in
charge of Major P. G. 7. Beauregard, for
repairs and extension. Such was his occu-
patton, chiefly, until the latter part of the
year 1860, at the close nearly of Floyd's
administration of the War Department
Floyd resigned December 29), when be
was ordered to West FONT, to succeed Col.
De!afield as the Superintendent of the Mile
tary Academy. He held this post, howev-
er but few days, an order having been
forwarded to Col. DeIafeld, by Floyd's sues
cessor, Mr.. Holt, to return to West Point.
The A,my Register informs us that Captain
and Brevet Maj. Peter g. Z. Beauregard re-
signed his commission in the corps engi-
neers of the United States Army On the
Both OF February, 1861. He Immediately
entered the service of the Southern Confed.
eracy as Brigadier General Of volunteers,
and on the 9Th of March he was ordered by
Jefferson Davis to Charleston, to take
charge of the batteries which had been con-
structed and other military preparations
initiated by Governor Pickens. On the
18th of April fire was opened from the bat.
teries, and on the 18th Fort Sumter was
evacuated by Maj. Anderson. Gen. Beau
regard was then ordered to take command
of the forces at Manassas Station, in Vir-
ginia, and be left Charleston for this duty
on the 9th of May, 1861. After assum.
ing command of the rebel army at that
point his earliest act was the issuing of
proclamation, on the 9TH of June, to the
people OF Loudon, Fairfax and the ada
cent counties, from which the following is
an extract, viz:
All rules of civilized warfare ar abandoned,
and they (the United States) proclaim, by
their acts, if not by their banners, that their
wal cry is Beauty and Booty" All that is
dear to man-your honor and that OF your
wives and daughters-yOur fortunes and your
lives-are involved in this momentous con-
test.
The Baltimore american justly remarks:
This is the NEST Objectionable of all the pro-
nuncian,entos of the rebels since the beginning
of the contest. How any man of Beauregard's
standing could have put his name to such
production we are at a loss to conceive.
Since the battle OF Bull Run Jeff. Davis
has honored Brigadier General Beauregard
for faithful service, by transferring him
from tie volunteer corps of the confaderacy
to its regular army, with the higher title of
General, simply being higher grade than
that of Major General in their ranks. OF the
later history Of Baauregara, our readers
are doubtless familiar.