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Military operations of General Beauregard.

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when it was learned in Richmond that General Beauregard had reported for duty a strong effort was made to obtain for him a command suitable to his rank. A personal friend of his, the Hon. C. J. Villere,1 on September 1st, telegraphed him as follows: ‘Would you prefer the Trans-Mississippi to Charleston?’

1 Member of Congress from Louisiana, and brother-in-law to General Beauregard.

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