]> http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms006004 G. T. Beauregard A Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress Prepared by Edwin A. Thompson and Aurelia Wolsey Revised by Patrick Kerwin and Lia Apodaca Manuscript Division, Library of Congress
Washington, D.C.
2005

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Finding aid encoded by Library of Congress Manuscript Division, 2005 Finding aid written in English. Collection Summary Papers of G. T. Beauregard 1844-1883 (bulk 1861-1865) MSS12203 Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893 6,500 items 54 containers 5.6 linear feet 9 microfilm reels Collection material in English Manuscript Division Library of Congress
Washington, D.C.
U.S. and Confederate Army officer, engineer, railroad executive, and public official. Correspondence, scrapbooks, and military papers, including letterbooks, headquarters records, telegrams and dispatches, orders, endorsements, and rosters. The bulk of the papers, 1861-1865, relate primarily to Beauregard's career as a general in the Confederate Army, especially at Fort Sumter and Charleston, South Carolina; Manassas and Petersburg, Virginia; Shiloh, Tennessee; Corinth, Mississippi; and Atlanta, Georgia. Other topics include Beauregard's work as an engineer, public official, and railroad executive in New Orleans and his service under General Winfield Scott in the Mexican War. Selected Search Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Library's online catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically therein.

 Names: Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893 Bonham, Milledge L. (Milledge Luke), 1813-1890--Correspondence Bragg, Braxton, 1817-1876--Correspondence Cobb, Howell, 1815-1868--Correspondence Cooper, Samuel, 1798-1876--Correspondence Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889--Correspondence Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane), 1835-1909--Correspondence Hampton, Wade, 1818-1902--Correspondence Hardee, William Joseph, 1815-1873--Correspondence Hill, D. H. (Daniel Harvey), 1821-1889--Correspondence Hood, John Bell, 1831-1879--Correspondence Johnston, Joseph E. (Joseph Eggleston), 1807-1891--Correspondence Jordan, Thomas, 1819-1895--Correspondence Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870--Correspondence Longstreet, James, 1821-1904--Correspondence Pickens, F. W. (Francis Wilkinson), 1805-1869--Correspondence Polk, Leonidas, 1806-1864--Correspondence Ripley, R. S. (Roswell Sabine), 1823-1887--Correspondence Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866 Totten, Joseph Gilbert, 1788-1864--Correspondence Van Dorn, Earl, 1820-1863--Correspondence Walker, Leroy Pope, 1817-1884--Correspondence Confederate States of America. Army United States. Army Subjects: Atlanta Campaign, 1864 Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861 Engineering--Louisiana--New Orleans Lotteries--Louisiana Mexican War, 1846-1848 Railroads--Louisiana--New Orleans Shiloh, Battle of, Tenn., 1862 Charleston (S.C.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 Charleston (S.C.)--History--Siege, 1863 Corinth (Miss.)--History--Siege, 1862 Fort Sumter (Charleston, S.C.)--Siege, 1861 Georgia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 Mississippi--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 New Orleans (La.)--Officials and employees Petersburg (Va.)--History--Siege, 1864-1865 South Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 Tennessee--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 Occupations: Army officers, Confederate Engineers Public officials--Louisiana Administrative Information Provenance:

The greater part of the papers of G. T. Beauregard, United States and Confederate Army officer, engineer, railroad executive, and public official, was purchased by the Library of Congress in 1915. Other items were donated or purchased from 1909 to 1972.

 Processing History:

The Beauregard Papers were processed in 1963. An addition was made in 1978, and the collection was prepared for microfilming in 1984. The finding aid was revised in 2003.

Copyright Status:

The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of G. T. Beauregard is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).

Microfilm:

A microfilm edition of these papers is available on nine reels. Consult a reference librarian in the Manuscript Division concerning availability for purchase or interlibrary loan.

 Preferred Citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container or reel number, G. T. Beauregard Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Biographical Note Date Event 1818, May 28 Born near New Orleans, La. 1838 Graduated, United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y. 1841 Married Laure Villere 1846 Served as an engineer on staff of General Winfield Scott in Mexico 1847 Took part in Mexican War battles of Vera Cruz, Cerro Gordo, Contreras, and Mexico City 1853 Promoted to captain, United States Army 1858-1861 Chief engineer in charge of draining the site of New Orleans, La. 1860 Married Caroline Deslonde 1861 Superintendent of United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y., for five days Resigned from United States Army Appointed brigadier general, Confederate Army, in command of forces at Charleston, S.C. Commanding officer, Department of Alexandria Commanding officer, 1st Corps, Army of the Potomac Promoted to general, Confederate Army 1862 Assistant to General Albert Sidney Johnston, Confederate Army Commander, Army of the Mississippi Commanding officer, Western Department Commander, Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, with headquarters at Charleston, S.C. 1864 Commander, Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia, Confederate Army Commander, Military Division of the West 1865 Named second in command to General Joseph E. Johnston Chief engineer and general superintendent, New Orleans, Jackson, and Great Northern Railroad 1866-1870 President, New Orleans, Jackson, and Great Northern Railroad 1866-1876 President, New Orleans & Carrollton Railroad Co. 1877-1893 Supervisor, Louisiana lottery 1879 Adjutant general of Louisiana 1888 Commissioner of public works, New Orleans, La. 1893, Feb. 20 Died, New Orleans, La. Scope and Content Note

The papers of Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard (1818-1893) consist of a diary, personal letterbooks, military records, the manuscript of "Reminiscences" which served as the basis for Alfred Roman's The Military Operation of General Beauregard (1884), scrapbooks, and miscellaneous material spanning the years 1844-1883. All but a few items are dated during or concern the Civil War.

The few early items in the collection relate to Beauregard's career as an engineer in New Orleans and on the staff of General Winfield Scott in Mexico, where Beauregard took part in the siege of Vera Cruz and the battles of Cerro Gordo, Contreras, and Mexico City. The bulk of the correspondence, the military papers, and the "Reminiscences" relate to Beauregard's service as an officer of the Confederate Army. He was in command of the troops at Charleston, South Carolina, when the Civil War began with the siege of Fort Sumter. The papers also document his role in the battles of First Manassas and Shiloh, in the sieges of Corinth, Charleston, and Petersburg, and in the consolidation of Southern forces after the battle of Atlanta.

Material on Beauregard's career as a railroad executive and public official in New Orleans and supervisor of the Louisiana lottery can be found in his letterbooks. Three volumes of scrapbooks of newspaper clippings are devoted almost exclusively to the Civil War.

Principal correspondents include Milledge L. Bonham, Braxton Bragg, Howell Cobb, Samuel Cooper, Jefferson Davis, Augusta J. Evans, Wade Hampton, William Joseph Hardee, Daniel Harvey Hill, John Bell Hood, Joseph E. Johnston, Thomas Jordan, Robert E. Lee, James Longstreet, F.W. Pickens, Leonidas Polk, R. S. Ripley, Joseph Gilbert Totten, Earl Van Dorn, and Leroy Pope Walker.

Organization of the Papers

The collection is arranged in six series:

Diary, 1847 Personal letterbooks, 1844-1880 Headquarters Records, 1861-1865 Miscellaneous Record Books, 1862-1869 Scrapbooks, 1861-1870 Miscellaneous Unbound Material, 1860-1879, n.d. Container List

Available on microfilm. Shelf no. 19,007

 Box Reel Contents 1 1 Diary, 1847

Beauregard's diary.

 1 1 1847, Jan. 14-Sept. 12 2-12 1-2 Personal letterbooks, 1844-1880

Copies of correspondence.

Arranged chronologically.

2 1 1844, June 19-1846, Dec. 26 3 11846, Nov. 26-1847, Mar. 1 4 11861, Mar. 4-May 25, also includes "Record of Fort Sumter" 5 11861, Mar. 1-1863, Dec. 8 6 11861, June 30-1863, Feb. 9 7 11865, Dec. 16-1867, Apr. 18 8 11867, Apr. 19-1869, Feb. 4 9 11869, Feb. 6-1872, Feb. 5 10 2 1872, Feb. 28-1875, Dec. 1 11 21875, Dec. 4-1880, Mar. 24 12 21880, Mar. 9-1883, Dec. 5 13-46 2-7 Headquarters Records, 1861-1865

Letterbooks, telegrams, dispatches, endorsement books, order books, transfer books, registers, and rosters.

Arranged alphabetically by military department or division and therein by type of material.

 13 2 Department of Alexandria, Army of the Potomac, Army of the Mississippi, Western Department, and Department No. 2 Letterbook "A," 1861 Department of Alexandria, June 1-20 Army of the Potomac, June 21-Dec. 31 14 3 Letterbook "B," 1862 Army of the Potomac, Jan. 2-29 Army of the Mississippi, Jan. 29-May 6 Western Department, May 7-June 25 Department No. 2, June 26-Sept. 9 15 3Letterbook "C," 1862 Army of the Mississippi, Apr. 1-May 26 Western Department, May 7-June 25 Department No. 2, June 26-Aug. 27 16 3Summary of letters received, 1861, Dec 29-1862, Aug. 29 17 4 Telegram book "A," Army of the Mississippi, 1862, Feb. 17-Apr. 24 18 4Telegram book "B," Army of the Mississippi, 1862, Apr. 25-June 18 19 4Telegram book (transcripts), Army of the Mississippi (Thomas Jordan and Braxton Bragg), 1862, June 19-Aug. 11 20 4Endorsement book, 1862 Army of the Potomac, Jan. 3-30 Army of the Mississippi, Mar. 7-May 6 Western Department, May 7-July 13 (kept by Braxton Bragg June 18-July 13) 21 4 Order book, 1861 General orders, June 2-Dec. 24 Special orders, June 4-Dec. 31 (Department of Alexandria and Army of the Potomac) 22 5 Special order book, 1862, Jan. 2-Aug. 27 Army of the Potomac Army of the Mississippi Western Department No. 2 (Thomas Jordan for Beauregard and Braxton Bragg) 23 5Transfer book, 1861, June 7-1862, Nov. 27 24 5Register, 1861, June 9-1862, July 31 25 5Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida Letterbooks, 1862 Aug. 21-Sept. 30 26 5Oct. 1-31 27 5Nov. 1-30 28 6 Dec. 1-31 29 6Field telegram and dispatches, 1862, Oct. 21-1863, Feb. 2; 1864, Jan 24-Nov. 15. Includes Department of the West, 1864, Oct. 3-Nov. 15 30 6Letterbook and telegram book (transcripts), 1864 Letters, Apr. 22-Sept. 22; Nov. 15 Telegrams, Jan. 17-Feb. 2; Apr. 25-June 3. Includes Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, Jan. 17-Feb. 2 31 6 Letterbook, 1864, Apr. 22-May 30 32 6Letterbook "B," kept by John M. Ortez, assistant inspector general, 1864, May 30-July 9 33 6Letterbook, kept by Thomas Jordan, assistant inspector general, 1864, July 10-Oct. 2 34 6Telegram book, 1864, Apr. 22-June 9 35 7 Endorsement book "A," 1864, Apr. 23-Sept. 27 36 7Roster of officers, 1864 37 7Military Division of the West Letterbook "A" 1864, Oct. 11-Dec. 31 38 71865, Jan. 4-Mar. 16 39 71865, Feb. 11-Apr. 10 40 7Letterbook of Henry Bryan, assistant inspector general, 1864, Nov. 30-1865, Mar. 9 41 7Telegram book "C," 1864, Dec. 3-1865, Mar. 18 42 7Special orders, 1864, Oct. 18-Dec. 30 43 7Special field orders, 1864, Oct. 23-1865, Mar. 6 44 7Endorsement books 1864, Oct. 3-Dec. 31 45 71865, Jan. 1-Mar. 17 46 7Organization of Military Division of the West, 1864-1865 47-49 7-8 Miscellaneous Record Books, 1862-1869

A register containing entries for various Confederate military units, two volumes containing copies of letters, and notes and genealogical and biographical material.

47 7 Register First Corps, Army of the Potomac, pp. 5-115, 1862, Jan. List of generals and lieutenant generals, p. 116, 1863, Jan. 1 General officers, Army of the Mississippi, p. 118, n.d. Army of the Potomac, pp. 124-126, 1862, Jan. 31 General officers, Department of Northern Virginia, p. 127, 1862 Return of the First Corps, Army of the Potomac, p. 128, 1862, July 21 "Yankee" Army of the Potomac at the Battle of Manassas, pp. 129-130, n.d. Force at Battle of Shiloh, pp. 131-133, 1862, Apr. 6-7 Confederate forces that retreated from Corinth, Miss., pp. 155-160, 1862, May 27 Army of the Mississippi (Braxton Bragg), pp. 161-163, n.d. Officers of the different military courts, pp. 166-167, 1862 Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, pp. 168-244, [1862?] 48 8 Miscellaneous Book, 1861-1865 Copies of letters, 1861, Jan. 23-1865, Apr. 27 Miscellaneous Book, 1865-1869 49 8Notes on Edward Albert Pollard's The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates, 1867 Notes on Horace Greeley's The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-64, 1865 Genealogical and biographical notes on Beauregard, 1869 Cash accounts, 1865, Jan.-Mar. 50-52 8 Scrapbooks, 1861-1870

Scrapbooks.

Arranged in approximate chronological order.

 50 8 Vol. 1, 1861-1862 51 8Vol. 2, 1861-1864 52 8Vol. 3, 1861-1870 53-54 8-9 Miscellaneous Unbound Material, 1860-1879, n.d.

Correspondence, notes, reports, and calling cards.

Arranged by type of material.

 53 8-9 General correspondence, 1860-1879, n.d. Book file, "Reminiscences," notes, n.d. Narrative (8 folders) 54 9 (2 folders) Charleston, S.C. (4 folders) Petersburg, Va. (2 folders) Military papers, reports, 1861-1865 Miscellany, calling cards, n.d.