page_title: P. G. T. Beauregard
section_title: American Civil War
hierarchical_section_title: P. G. T. Beauregard / American Civil War
caption_attribution_description: English: Lt. Pierre Toutant Gustave Beauregard, ca. 1845-1846. Attributed to Alexander Charles Jaume (French 1813-1858), Presbytère, Louisiana State Museum. Note: One of the most notable Louisianians to serve in the Civil War was P. G. T. Beauregard, a graduate of West Point and the Confederacy's first brigadier general. As commander of the Confederate forces at Charleston, S. C., Beauregard ordered the bombardment of Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, firing the first shot of the Civil War. Like many Civil War troops and officers, Beauregard received his early combat experience in the Mexican War of 1846-1848.Français&#160;: Un Louisianais des plus notables ayant servi dans la guerre civile, P.G. T. Beauregard est un diplômé de West Point et le premier brigadier-général de la Confédération. Le 12 Avril 1861, en tant que commandant des forces confédérées à Charleston, Carfoline du Sud, Beauregard ordonna le bombardement de Fort Sumter: ce fut le premier tir de la guerre civile. Comme beaucoup de soldats et d'officiers de la guerre civile, Beauregard s'initia au combat lors de la guerre américano-mexicaine de 1846 à 1848.
context_page_description: Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard was a Confederate general officer who started the American Civil War by leading the attack on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861. Today, he is commonly referred to as P. G. T. Beauregard, but he rarely used his first name as an adult. He signed correspondence as G. T. Beauregard.
  Trained in military and civil engineering at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, Beauregard served with distinction as an engineer officer in the Mexican–American War. Following a brief appointment as superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy in 1861, and after Louisiana seceded, he resigned from the United States Army and became the first brigadier general in the Confederate States Army. He commanded the defenses of Charleston, South Carolina, at the start of the Civil War at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861. Three months later he won the First Battle of Bull Run near Manassas, Virginia.
  Beauregard commanded armies in the Western Theater, including at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee, and the Siege of Corinth in northern Mississippi. He returned to Charleston and defended it in 1863 from repeated naval and land attacks by Union forces.
caption: The 1861 George Peter Alexander Healy portrait of Beauregard in the National Portrait Gallery, Washington
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