Named Entity Results, Beauregard

Beauregard too much for Butler. General Butler, however, made Richmond his objective point of attack, and not Petersburg. He soon found he had caught a Tarter in General Beauregard, and after the severe defeat he sustained at his hands, the military nerves of our modern Achilles were so unstrung that he had no stomach for any further fighting at that time. The Richmond Examiner of the day indeed aptly compared Butler to a turkey buzzard matched against a great gyr falcon, and the result General Beauregard, and after the severe defeat he sustained at his hands, the military nerves of our modern Achilles were so unstrung that he had no stomach for any further fighting at that time. The Richmond Examiner of the day indeed aptly compared Butler to a turkey buzzard matched against a great gyr falcon, and the result proved the truth of its prognostications. Finding that the enemy did not appear to be disposed to molest us, many went back to their various occupations, but ready to be called upon at a moment's warning, and so it happened that on the fateful day our force was considerably diminished. During this time, however, we were marched from one point to another on the lines, finding ourselves at last doing duty on the farm of Mr. Timothy Rives, on the Jerusalem Plank Road, south of the town. Duri

into Camp Pickens, near Manassas Station. There was battle in the air. The Federal troops were on Virginia soil, possessors of Arlington Heights and Alexandria. Ten thousand Confederates were massing to meet and drive them back. Johnston and Beauregard took command, and Lee came for several days to look things over. Day and night the men were at work, throwing up breastworks. There was poor water, and there was disease, but every soldier was in spirits, and anxious for the fight. They had what they wanted. McDowell came to Bull Run. Johnston and Beauregard waited for him there, and in the first battle of Manassas, Company H, 28th Virginia, had its baptism of blood and fire. It bivouacked in the wood before Ball's Ford on the 17th of July, and it remained, uncovered, in position until after the battle, on Sunday, July 21st. Its part was to hold this ford, and also the approaches to the Island Ford, and it did its part. The courage, energy and obedience of the Twenty-eighth,

t this time very small affairs were magnified into brilliant victories. When he became famous. But it was on the plains of first Manassas, July 21, 1861, that he first became famous. General McDowell had ably and skilfully outgeneraled Beauregard, and crossing the upped fords of Bull Run, had moved down on the Confederate flank, driving before him the small Confederate force stationed there. General Bee, in the agony of being driven back, galloped up to Jackson, who, in command of a k of the heavy attack made on him, but did give them the bayonet, checked the onward tide of McDowell's victory, and held his position until Kirby Smith and Early came up on the flank. Jeb Stuart made a successful cavalry charge, Johnston and Beauregard had time to hurry up other troops, and a great Confederate victory was snatched from impending disaster. The name which the gallant Bee, about to yield up his noble life, gave Jackson that day, clung to him ever afterwards, and he will be kn

eir respective staffs, Generals Johnston and Beauregard met, in their saddles, at the bivouac of thereover, were too often employed singly. (General Beauregard, through the writer, had given special o without respite, failed necessarily. General Beauregard, in the meantime, observing the exhaustenight not far from Shiloh Church, where Generals Beauregard and Bragg established their headquarter in one of which, to the left of Shiloh, General Beauregard himself led in person, carrying the batturing the various stages of the conflict General Beauregard tried to use his cavalry, but so dense ail near 1 o'clock, when on an order from General Beauregard, Forrest carried his regiment to the cen are accurately and officially stated by General Beauregard at 1,728 killed, 8,012 wounded and 959 m and made the battle until 2 P. M., when General Beauregard withdrew from an unprofitable combat; wierals appear to have advanced. Fourth—General Beauregard has been blamed unjustly for withdrawing[3 more...]