| Show GENERAL berauregard BRAU REGARD shortly after 10 o last laet evening gustave pierre toutant Besu beauregard regard laid down his bia life and went to the realm where lee jackson the john ston etona and many other compatriots in the cause of the southern confederacy had preceded him he was wan 75 years old had fought through the mexican war and in the most exposed places in that of the rebellion and finally died in the midst of peace and quietude general beauregard was by many considered the ablest engineer on either ade side in the civil war his defenses at charleston and other points were as and nearly impregnable as aa human skill could make them prom from the former on the day of april 1861 was fired the shot that sounded throughout the world that hastily summoned both sides of a divided nation to arms that initiated the most i terrific and fratricidal strife of modern times the shot that crashed into the battlements of foit sumter he was almost as ae capable in the field as 99 among the earthworks earthworms earth works to his unerring judgment and wonderful per caption was largely due the crushing cru ahing defeat of the union forc forces esat at bull run be followed up the damage inflicted upon general grants forces by albert sidney johnston JohnB ton at Shilo band pushed hack back the union army step by step for lileathe mi mil leathe esthe latter being saved from either destruction or capture by the arrival of heavy reinforcements ranked flanked by gum gua boats boate general butler had the temerity to engage him in battle at drury og bluff and was whipped neatly corn com plemely and expeditiously for his hia pains in short abort the confederate chieftain was waa a great if not a wonderful soldier etta elia later years have been passed in comparative para tive retirement at his hia hone home at now new orleans |
