The Military Operations of General Beauregard in the War Between the States 1861 to 1865 Part Two

This book is written in 1884. Including a brief personal sketch and a narrative of his services in the war with Mexico, 1846-8, Partial contents of Volume Two include: Effort made to Obtain a Suitable Command for General Beauregard; Extension of General Beauregard’s Command; General Beauregard Returns to Charleston; Delay of the Federal Attack on Charleston; General Beauregard Orders the Cumming’s Point Battery to be Strengthened; Troops Withdrawn from General Beauregard and Sent to North Carolina and to General Johnston; General Beauregard’s Report on the Operations on Morris Island in July, August, and September. It also contains: General Beauregard Desires the Engineers’ Reports of the Condition of Fort Sumter; General Beauregard Prepares for an Attack upon Charleston; Arrival of General Beauregard at Weldon, April 22d; Withdrawal of Troops from General Beauregard; Unconquerable Spirit of our Troops around Petersburg; After the 18th of June General Beauregard is no longer in Command of the Army around Petersburg; Divers Operations of Federal Columns; General Beauregard Assumes Command of the Military Division of the West; Arrival of General Hood’s Army at Tuscumbia, October 30th; General Beauregard’s Effort to Reinforce General Hood by Drawing Troops from the Trans-Mississippi Department; General Hood Desires General Beauregard to Visit the Army of Tennessee; Generals Beauregard and Hardee Meet, by Appointment at Augusta; The Enemy Crosses Broad River on the 16th of February. It also contains: General Sherman’s Preconceived Determination to have Columbia Burned; General Hardee’s Despatch of the 3d of March to General Johnston; Strength of the Federal Army at Goldsboro’; General Beauregard Completes his Last Official Duties; and Management of the Confederate Administration.