The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-02-21
DEAD
The Last of the Great Confeder-
ate Captains Mustered Out.
He FIRED ON FORT SUMTER.


military service, died tonight. The nrst symp-
TOMS OF his fatal illness were manifested TWO
ton Of diseases which threatened heart failure.
BE unaffected some improvement under tho
physicians' care, particularly In the last three
or four days, when he was able to leave his apart
ments and take short periods OF exercise in
the grounds of his residence. He dined with
the family this evening and remained In the
library until $50 He went to sleep easily and
seemed resting we'll One Of the nurses went to
his bsdsidsa few minutes after 10 o'clock and
WAS horrided to nnd him In . death struggle
The members Of the family were summoned ct
once. but before they reached the chamber the
end had como The direct cause OF death was
heart failure The funeral will be held on
Wednesday. Despite his advanced age, IS years,
Gen. Bsaufsgard had LED life Of considerable
activity.
pierre Gustave Toutant BeaureRard, the last
survivor OF the Confederacy bearing the title Of
general. was born near New Orleans. His grand
father came from France with lafayette TO fight
Toutans, but when in 1884 young Toutant en-
tered the West Point military scsdemy, he took
tho territorial title of his fathers estate, AMI
was entered on the books IS Beauregard. He
Was graduated second in class rank at West
Point In 1888. Among his classmates were the
future Confederate generals Hsrdee and Sibley
aud Mcdowell He wss assigned fsst to The
artillery and then to the engineers and in 1889
was assistant In the construction of Fort Adams.
s.por R.a W; on .ngnsss.n: duty At 81
Nississippi in lSA1-44, and 1t Fort McHsnry,
Nd, IN lsa4-45. At the BEGINNING Of the war
with Mexico he WAS engaged In the construc-
Vera Crus, Csrro Gordo. Contreras Chapullepec
and City OF Mexico. where he WAS twice
wounded: Shortly afterward he was brsvstted
major. He attained the full rank OF captain of
engineers March 3, 1853, for fourteen years of
continuous service 40 lieutenant Returning to
the United States, he was assigned to duty in
construction and repair OF fortifcations in Mo-
bile harbof and on the Mississippi river,
also OF harbor construction in Lake
ginesr Of the custom house It. 81 Louis.
His supervisory duties extended over the GULF
coast from Florida 70 the Rio Grande. On jan
Of the military academy at West Point, but
held the place only few days. resigning his
commission February 90 1851. This ends his
He at once offered his services to the Southern
C0nfedsracy, then organizing to resist the au-
thority Of the Federal government, and was
ton. s. G. ON the refusal Of Maj Robert Ander-
son to evacuate Fort Sumter. he opened
nre soon after daylight on the morning of April
during Which. .ccordins to ''s ,Ss o ano5i
reports. not . single life was lost on
either side Fort Sumter. with ammunition and
Gen. Beauregard, and the 9arrison marched out
with the honors OF war. Beauregard was al
most Immediately ordered 70 Virginia, whore
Bull Run uuly 2l). though superseded at the
last moment by Gen. Joseph z. Johnston In
the spring Of 1862 he was ordered to Tennessee
Johnston, and when that ofhcer was killed at
the battle OF Shiloh, April 6. Beauregsrd took
command and nearly succeeded in routing the
the Federais having been rs"inior rSIs's be-
was compelled to retreat by Gen. Grant,
falling back in good order to Corinth, Misa,
where he made . successful defense until Nav
%, when he svacuated the place. destroying eli
his stores, and fetreatins south along the Mo-
bile Ohio railroad. Gen. Beaureeard's health
failed after this campaign, and he was on leave
OF absence until August. when. with the full
rank OF general, he was eagain placed In com.
maud 81 Ch:rlesson. which for year and . halt
lions Of Admirals Dupont and Dahigren. In
May, 1864, when Gen. Graut was closing
In upon the approaches to Richmopd Beaure
Drury's Blum, and held Petersburg against the
Federal advance In October he was appointed
commander OF the military division OF the
West and sent to Georgia 70 resist the march OF
joining forces with Gen. J. E. Johnston in Moth
Carolina, he surren nis with that officer to
became president Of the New Orleans, jackson
Il Mississippi railroad. adjutant general OF the
state. and manager Of the Louisiana state lot
monthly drawings OF that notorious swindiS.
and was well paid for it He wrot:
"Prneples and Maxims Of the Art Of War"
Perhaps no man who entered the service Of
the Confederacy witnessed the collapse with so
much chagrin - he. That he was thwarted in
his plans, and that lack OF confidence in him
was manifested by Jefferson Davis and his cshi.
net, there is no doubt. 1t 10 not 70 self.evident
that Gen. Bcauregard's plans would have
averted the FINAL catastrophe had he been a.
lowed to execute them and had he been nron.
erly supported. The general was convinced On
tina: point, and even after the lapse of thirty
years from the initial "blunder." he could not
bring himself to speak with GOODNESS Of ..the
timid policy which--ignoripg strategy a
. science and boldness Of enterp,ise
as its ally-could never b brought to view the
whole theater OF war a. one subj0ct of Which
all points were but integral parts." He ssserted
with a vehemence which left no doubt of his
sincerity that had the war been conducted A. IL
should have been. "the moral and material
forces actually engaged made our success a
moral certainty" The general used to e. nisin
how. II Bull Run had been fought as he planned
it. ana 1t he had been permitted, even after tha
battle had taken place. TO adopt HE later plans
he could have ''crushed Patterson, liberated
Maryland and captured Warrington" He was
firmly convinced that no people ever
fought for Independence with more rel
ates; and If, from q military stand.
point, they must have failed, then no county
need hope for freedom by means OF war LEFT
Davis detested Beauregard, and seised q pretsxt
to depo.e him from comman in the West The
generals friends urged his reinstatement bnt
Davis declared that he ''would not restore him
gard left alarge fortune He owned valuable
property At Portland, Ors1
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