Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard Quotes
Booty and Beauty
Looting by marauding troops existed on both sides in the Civil War. However. much of the looting and the worst atrocities were committed by deserters of both armies.
Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, 1818–1893, Confederate General, Engineer, & Reconstruction Politician (Democrat), Slogan of his army at the beginning of the Civil War, Quoted in Charles Eliot Norton, “The Advantages of Defeat”, The Atlantic Monthly, September 1861
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Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard was a Confederate general officer who started the American Civil War by leading the attack on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861. Today, he is commonly referred to as P. G. T. Beauregard, but he rarely used his first name as an adult. He signed correspondence as G. T. Beauregard.