A look at what happened April 7-12, 1861, before the firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. The shots fired ...

Robert E. Lee, Pierre Beauregard also left the Union army to defend his native state. The Mexican War veteran was present at the opening shots on Fort Sumter and Bull Run, where he defeated a ...

G. T. Beauregard concentrates on the man in the Civil War. Unlike Robert E. Lee, he has not been the subject of a major biographical treatment in over 65 years. As a Roman Catholic Creole, he was ...

"Beauregard, actually ... But 750,000 Americans would be killed before the Civil War ended in 1865. Four years to the day after Sumter fell, Anderson – by then a retired general – returned ...

Beauregard halted the Confederate attack at ... The Shiloh Visitor Center and Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center are open 8:00 am - 5:00 pm daily. Closed on Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day ...

Beauregard, Bragg, Jackson, Joe Johnston, and Longstreet – to see how their experiences in 1846-1848 affected their actions during the Civil War. Each of the essays is by a noted scholar of the Civil ...

The Civil War, an epic nine-episode series by the award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and produced in conjunction with WETA, Washington, D.C., first aired in September of 1990 to an ...