The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-29
PIERRE G. 7. BEAUREGARD
SOUTHERN GENERAL WHO FIRST
BECAME PROMINENT IN THE WAR.
His Son Talks of His Mental Charac-
teristics and Somewhat of His
Military Achievements.
New Orleans Picayune.

New Orleans Picayune.
The Beauregard family has been brought
into the public eye recently through the
presentation of a portrait of the late
Gen. Pierre G.. T. Beauregard to the
Beauregard School and the addresses dellV-
cred there by the Rev. DR.. B. NJ. Palmer
and E. Z. Kruttschnitt, and especially the
strong appeal of DR.. Palmer for the erec-
ton of a monument to the Louisiana war
hero In a most conspicuous place in the
city.
The best-known member Of the family of
General Beauregard is Judge r. T. Beaure-
gard, who, with his wife, attended the pre-
sentation at the school, and received con-
CALCULATIONS, and was highly pleased with
the splendid commemorative exercises in
honor of his father. Judge Beauregard is a
lawyer of high standing, and besides hav-
ing been for several years district attor-
ney in the district including st. Bernard and
Plaquemines parishes is now one of the
judges of the State Court of Appeals. He
was himself an officer in the Confederate
army, though a mere boy when the war
began.
A reporter paid a call to the home of the
judge recently for the purpose of getting
some family "reminiscences of the general
who fired the first gun of the war and
commanded at the successful battle of Bull
run. Judge Beauregard lives in the par
ish OF st. Bernard, perhaps mile below the
Orleans parish line and directly in front
of the monument, which marks the spot
where General Jackson had his headquar-
ters during the battle of New Orleans.
where General Pakenham fell and which is
the center of interest 10 sightseers who
want to see the battlefield.
JACKSON'S HEADQUARTERS.
Judge Beaureguard bought the old plan
tation house. which was the headquarters
of General Jackson, several years ago, dur
ing his term as district attorney. 1t was
then in a most dilapidated condition. The
old house, built on the style Of the familiar
plantation mansions with it's large pillars
in front. its galleries and great rooms was
badly out of repair and looked almost like
ruin. But the judge has gradually i'm
proved ii and added a wooden wing on the
lower side and made many OJner impor-
tant changes. especially in the grounds,
but the old mansion is still in about the
same form and the historic rooms are I'M
changed and the judge and Mrs. Beaure-
gard take a deep interest in everything
which relates TO the story or the battle and
its hero. The house stands far back from
the shell road which was built not long ago
by the superintendent of the Chalmette
the road leading down TO the cemetery and
to the monument was very bad. All along
the river front below the city there were
in old times mansions OF rich planters, for
the land there was amazingly fertile and
is still. They lived there in all the splendor
of Southern luxury and hospitality. But
the plantations have been cut UP and many
OF them turned into market gardens and
cattle pastures. Most of the houses are
there still though, and give the visitor
fair idea of the old-time beauties and
splendors which is merely an idea, for
those old mansions are never the same
without their old-time occupants. In the
case of the battlefield plantation house this
is not the case because ii has just the same
kind of occupants who made il famous
in the early days.
In front of the mansion is a large lawn.
which is surrounded on all sides by a
hedge of roses and waen they are in bloom
which Is nearly always in this climate. even
in the MIDDLE of winter il is a very beau
tiful sight. AS one drives through the
big white gate that Is the first thing that
he sees, the house being; partly hidden by
foliage. Then there are some wonderful
cedar trees. tall and straight, with beauti-
full tufted heads. Cedar trees do not gem
orally flourish on that sort of fat soil. but
those are phenomenal. There are plenty OF
other trees and shrubbery. but these are
the two features that seemed TO be most
prominent as they were seen in the beauti-
ful moonlight of November evening.
To the right and back OF the house stands