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See also:BEAUREGARD, See also:PIERRE GUSTAVE TOUTANT (1818-1893) , See also:American soldier, was See also:born near New See also:- ORLEANS
- ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
- ORLEANS, DUKES OF
- ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
- ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
- ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
- ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
- ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
- ORLEANS, PHILIP I
- ORLEANS, PHILIP II
Orleans, See also:Louisiana, on the 28th of May 1818. At the See also:United States military See also:academy he graduated second in his class in See also:July 1838, and was appointed See also:lieutenant of engineets. In the Mexican See also:War he distinguished himself in See also:siege operations at See also:Vera Cruz, and took See also:part in all the battles around See also:Mexico, being wounded at Chapultepec, and receiving the brevets of See also:captain and See also:major. In 1853 he became captain and was in See also:charge of fortification and other engineer See also:works of various points, on the Gulf See also:coast from 1853 to 186o. He had just been appointed See also:superintendent of See also:West Point when the See also:secession of his See also:state brought about his resignation (loth See also:February 1861). As a brigadier-See also:general of the new Confederate See also:army he directed the See also:bombardment of Fort See also:Sumter, S.C. As the See also:commander of the See also:Southern " Army of the See also:Potomac " he opposed McDowell's advance to See also:Bull Run, and during the See also:battle was second in command under See also:Joseph E. See also:Johnston, who had joined him on the previous evening. He was one of the five full generals appointed in See also:August 1861, and in 1862 was second in command under See also:Sidney Johnston on the See also:Tennessee. After Johnston's See also:death he directed the battle of See also:Shiloh, subsequent to which he retired to See also:Corinth. This See also:place he defended against the united armies under See also:Halleck, until the end of May 1862, when he retreated in See also:good See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to the southward. His See also:health now failing, he was employed in less active See also:work.
He defended See also:Charleston against the See also:Union forces from See also:September 1862 to See also:April 1864. In May 1864 he fought a severe and eventually successful battle at See also:Drury's See also:Bluff against General See also:- BUTLER
- BUTLER (or BOTELER), SAMUEL (1612–168o)
- BUTLER (through the O. Fr. bouteillier, from the Late Lat. buticularius, buticula, a bottle)
- BUTLER, ALBAN (1710-1773)
- BUTLER, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1818-1893)
- BUTLER, CHARLES (1750–1832)
- BUTLER, GEORGE (1774-1853)
- BUTLER, JOSEPH (1692-1752)
- BUTLER, NICHOLAS MURRAY (1862– )
- BUTLER, SAMUEL (1774-1839)
- BUTLER, SAMUEL (1835-1902)
- BUTLER, SIR WILLIAM FRANCIS (1838– )
- BUTLER, WILLIAM ARCHER (1814-1848)
Butler and the Army of the See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James. Later in the See also:year he endeavoured to gather troops wherewith to oppose See also:Sherman's advance from See also:Atlanta, and eventually surrendered with Johnston's forces in April 1865. After the war he engaged in railway management, became See also:adjutant-general of his state and managed the Louisiana lottery. He declined high commands which were offered to him in the Rumanian and later in the See also:Egyptian armies. General Beauregard died in New Orleans on the loth of February 1893. He was the author of Principles and See also:Maxims of the See also:Art of War (Charleston, 1863); See also:Report on the See also:Defence of Charleston (See also:Richmond, 1864).
See See also:Alfred See also:Roman, Military Operations of General Beauregard (New See also:York, 1883).
End of Article: BEAUREGARD, PIERRE GUSTAVE TOUTANT (1818-1893)
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