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George McClellan

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George McClellan letters that mention Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard (1 total)

• George Mcclellan letter to Winfield Scott

  Washington, MD - 8 August 1861

  Information from various sources reaching me to-day, through spies, letters, and telegrams, confirms my impressions, derived from previous advices, that the enemy intend attacking our positions on the other side of the river

Robert Lee

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Robert Lee letters that mention Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard (1 total)

• Robert Lee letter to Jefferson Davis

  Coosawhatchie, SC - 24 November 1861

  I recollect, however, that at the interview at which I was present Mr. Chesnut urged, on the part of General Beauregard, the importance of reinforcing the army of the Potomac to enable it to oppose the Federal forces

Jefferson Davis

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Jefferson Davis letters that mention Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard (7 total)

• Jefferson Davis letter to Joseph Davis

  Richmond, VA - 21 February 1862

  The enemy are for the time occupied with the interior, and I have directed Captain Hollins to move up the river with his fleet In two or three weeks it is expected that some fourteen vessels, to be manned by "river men," will be ready to leave New Or

• Jefferson Davis letter to Varina Davis

  Richmond, VA - 19 June 1862

  Mrs. Greenhow when she came brought me three oranges and a box of Jelly.

• Jefferson Davis letter to Joseph Johnston

  Richmond, VA - 20 July 1861

  You are a General in the Confederate Army, possessed of the power attached to that rank.

• Jefferson Davis letter to Joseph Johnston

  Richmond, VA - 3 November 1861

  Reports have been and are being widely circulated to the effect that I prevented General Beauregard from pursuing the enemy after the battle of Manassas

• Jefferson Davis letter to Joseph Johnston

  Richmond, VA - 13 September 1861

  While you were in the Valley of Virginia, your army and that of General Beauregard were independent commands ; when you marched to Manassas, the forces joined and did duty together.

• Jefferson Davis letter to Varina Davis

  Fortress Monroe, VA - 7 December 1865

  I am deeply impressed by the kindness of the Bishop, and that of the priests who have so nobly shown their readiness to do their Master's work in relieving the afflicted and protecting the fatherless.

• Jefferson Davis letter to Varina Davis

  Fortress Monroe, VA - 24 January 1866

  That power to compare and sift testimony is as necessary to a historian as to an attorney, and I hope the faculty will be put in exercise proportionate to the field our time has offered

Theodore Lyman

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Theodore Lyman letters that mention Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard (3 total)

• Theodore Lyman letter to Elizabeth Russell

  Headquarters Army Of Potomac, VA - 1 August 1864

  I waked at about six in the morning and heard the General say, "Very well, then, let the truce be from five to nine." Whereby I knew that Beauregard had agreed to a cessation of hostilities for the burial of the dead

• Theodore Lyman letter to Elizabeth Russell

  Headquarters Army Of Potomac, VA - 21 August 1864

  Last night, Hancock, with his two remaining divisions, marched from Deep Bottom and took position on our left, ready to support Warren.

• Theodore Lyman letter to Elizabeth Russell

  Headquarters Army Of Potomac, VA - 24 August 1864

  What you say of Meade's want of success is, as a fact, true; but what I don't understand is, that the successes are Grant's but the failures Meade's. In point of reality the whole is Grant's

Joseph Johnston

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• Joseph Johnston letter to Jefferson Davis

  Manassas, VA - 10 September 1861

  It was said that during the past summer I have been censured by the two persons in Richmond highest in military rank, for not having assumed command of this army, and that they complain of the inconvenience to the service which had been produced ther

• Joseph Johnston letter to Jefferson Davis

  Manassas, VA - 12 September 1861

  I will not affect to disguise the surprise and mortification produced in my mind by the action taken in this matter by the President and by Congress.

James Longstreet

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• James Longstreet letter to Robert Lee

  unknown - 23 February 1865

  I think you did not understand my letter of the 14th instant. My effort was to express conviction that Sherman's move was aimed at Richmond

• James Longstreet letter to Robert Lee

  Headquarters First Corps - 26 February 1865

  I have just heard from General Ewell indirectly that he can raise force enough at Richmond to hold the lines on this side, so that my corps may be withdrawn temporarily to your right

George Picket

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• George Pickett letter to Salle Corbell Pickett

  Headquarters, VA - 18 June 1864

  The line of breastworks which they took and to which Marse Robert refers in the notice inclosed is most important, as the main line of defense between Richmond and Petersburg

Mary Boykin Chestnut

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• Mary Boykin Chestnut journal entry

  Charleston, SC - 2 April 1861

  Doctor Gibbes says the Convention is in a snarl. It was called as a Secession Convention.

• Mary Boykin Chestnut journal entry

  Charleston, SC - 6 April 1861

  Beauregard is a demigod here to most of the natives, but there are always seers who see and say. They give you to understand that Whiting has all the brains now in use for our defense.

• Mary Boykin Chestnut journal entry

  Charleston, SC - 8 April 1861

  Went to see Miss Pinckney, one of the last of the old-world Pinckneys. She inquired particularly about a portrait of her father, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney

• Mary Boykin Chestnut journal entry

  Charleston, SC - 12 April 1861

  Anderson will not capitulate. Yesterday's was the merriest, maddest dinner we have had yet. Men were audaciously wise and witty.

• Mary Boykin Chestnut journal entry

  Charleston, SC - 15 April 1861

  I did not know that one could live such days of excitement. Some one called : "Come out ! There is a crowd coming."

• Mary Boykin Chestnut journal entry

  Montgomery, AL - 9 May 1861

  Sumter ,Anderson has been offered a Kentucky regiment. Can they raise a regiment in Kentucky against us ? In Kentucky, our sister State?

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• Mary Boykin Chestnut journal entry

  Charleston, SC - 12 June 1861

  The war is making us all tenderly sentimental. No casualties yet, no real mourning, nobody hurt. So it is all parade, fife, and fine feathers. Posing we are en grande tenue.

• Mary Boykin Chestnut journal entry

  Charleston, SC - 19 June 1861

  n England Mr. Gregory and Mr. Lyndsey rise to say a good word for us. Heaven reward them

• Mary Boykin Chestnut journal entry

  Fauquier White Sulphur Springs, VA - 7 July 1861

  An antique female, with every hair curled and frizzed, said to be a Yankee spy, sits opposite us.

• Mary Boykin Chestnut journal entry

  Fauquier White Sulphur Springs, VA - 11 July 1861

  The one who is under a cloud,, shadowed as a Yankee spy, has confirmed our worst suspicions. She exhibited unholy joy, as she reported seven hundred sick soldiers in the hospital at Culpeper

• Mary Boykin Chestnut journal entry

  Richmond, VA - 13 July 1861

  Mr. Chesnut doubtless had too many spies to receive from Washington, galloping in with the exact numbers of the enemy done up in their back hair.

• Mary Boykin Chestnut journal entry

  Richmond, VA - 16 July 1861

  As far as I can make out, Beauregard sent Mr. Chesnut to the President to gain permission for the forces of Joe Johnston and Beauregard to join, and, united, to push the enemy, if possible, over the Potomac.

• Mary Boykin Chestnut journal entry

  Richmond, VA - 19 July 1861

  Beauregard telegraphed yesterday (they say, to General Johnston), " Come down and help us, or we shall be crushed by numbers.

• Mary Boykin Chestnut journal entry

  Richmond, VA - 23 July 1861

  Mrs. Davis came in so softly that I did not know she was here until she leaned over me and said : A great battle has been fought. Joe Johnston led the right wing, and Beauregard the left wing

Sarah Morgan

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• Sarah Dawson journal entry

  Baton Rouge, LA - 27 April 1862

  What a day! Last night came a dispatch that New Orleans was under British protection, and could not be bombarded

• Sarah Dawson journal entry

  Baton Rouge, LA - 4 June 1862

  Our condition is desperate. Beauregard is about attacking these Federals. They say he is coming from Corinth, and the fight will be in town. If true, we are lost again.