The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-29

the uncompleted monument of white mar
BILE which the ladies are trying to finish.
There is a wide lawn reaching back to 1T,
with white Schillinger walk leading
through il, and there hundreds Of people
go to see Chalmette.
The coast down there is remote from the
city owing to imperfect transportation ia
cilties, and there has been effort TO
have the electric car line extended from the
city line to Port Chalmette, the big ship
ping place a couple Of miles below. out
though there are hundreds of laborers who
have to walk to the car line and hundreds
of people who visit the battle ground and
as many more who would do so, 1t has
1--WE have poor facilities for attending
the theater or anything like that because
we must drive to the city line and keep
the horse waiting there" said the judge.
When the reporter reached the parish line
he had been met by a small. typical coll
ored driver. who said: Yah, dis Judge
Bogard's caige" and drove like mad to
the big gate. On the way he explained
that 'das Marse Henry Bogard's house
Gar" 1t is another plantation mansion
just above that of the judges Mr. CenaS
a brother-in-law, lives a little higher up
also.
RESERVED EVEN IN HIS FAMILY.
Seated in his library I'm the old mansion
Judge Beauregard talked interestingly of
his father. General Beauregard never lived
on that plantation. His place was at Terre
| aux Boeufs, farther down the coast, but
in the early days he lived in New Orleans
on Royal street, and that was where his
sons first came to know him and where
their earliest remembrance reaches from
| In those days he was not the social friend
| that he became in later years. His sons
remember him as an army engineer whom
| they admired with a thing of awe. After
referring TO that period Judge Beaurega-d
said: Then those blank spaces of tire
which take place in life and which are a
| closed book to investigation suddenly
ceased and my continuous remembrance
of my father dates from after the Mexican
war, when he under Major Barnard, after
ward General Barnard. had charge Of the
coast defense of this State, and then after
ward he had charge of the custom house
of which he assumed charge in its then less
| than two-thlrdS completed condition. Dur
ing this period anG up to the war Major
Beauregard was to us. and such was his
general repute. taciturn, laconic Of speech
devoid of enthusiasm and intent only On
| the discharge of his duties Those last two
traits he preserved through life. He dis
| liked long-winded arguments which did not
| tend to positive conclusion, and he would
often end the discussions abruptly. Per-
haps on this account, outside of his army
friends and those in civil life who knew
! him intimately. he had not many friends
but his administrative ability and his tact
for organization were generally known"
Continuing this theme, Judge Beau
regard said that when New Orleans, in
Know-nothing days, was cOnvulsed by fac
tions, his fathers civil friends appealed
TO him TO accept the nomination TO the
mayoraity. Local history recorded his fall
ure to be elected. The general disliked
bubbles and devious ways He was al
ways straightforward.
Judge Beauregard said that when his
father went away to West Point after his
appointment as superintendent Of the Mill
tary Academy he was at school in Alex
andria, and anxious to go with him.
However. he did not join him until after
the battle of Manassas. OF course the
record OF the generals appointment and
movements at Sumter and subsequently,
are known to all readers of history His
son fermd a battery of artillery, in which
he was lieutenant and afterWard captain,
and served through the war. and was at
tached to the Army of Tennessee during a
great part of the time. Henry Beauregard,
the younger son, was a cadet at the South
Carolina Military Institute. and was sta
toned with other cadets in the ruins OF
Fort Sumter during the last year of the
war. He was zoo young 70 participate in
any battles, but If the war had continued
long enough there would have been three
Beauregsrds among the Confederate Of
fcers. He Joined his father. and surren-
dered with him at GreensbOrough.
At the time that General Beauregard
went to the Judge Beauregard's
grandfather. grandmother and sister re-
parish of Plaquemines. known as the old
Magnolia plantation, where the family then
lived
In regard to the reason why he was not
with his father during the war, Judge
Beauregard said that his father was Op-
posed TO nepotism, as il was afterward
called. and wanted to get his son away;
be believed that one reason for this was
that his father would not have liked 10
see him shot. and for that reason the
formed hattery, part of the men coming
from Louisiana. He was the first lieutcn-
ant, and after the battle at Jackson. Miss,
the captain being wounded he became
captain, and afterward senior captain in
the battalion.
MY father was very hard toward him
self. and allowed himself very little pleas
ure- de was always at work" said the
Judge 4 was with him during some OF
the phases OF the war in Virginia at
Charleston and at Corinth, and during nv
stay at headquarters the generals day and