Military operations of General Beauregard.
Chapter 26:
- Effort made to obtain a suitable command for General Beauregard. -- he is assigned to duty in South Carolina and Georgia. -- he reaches Charleston on the 15th of September. -- unpopularity of General Pemberton. -- pleasure of the City and State authorities at General Beauregard's superseding him. -- loss of General Beauregard's papers of this period of the war. -- General Beauregard's tour of inspection throughout his Department. -- criticism of the lines of works as constructed by General Pemberton. -- General Beauregard's regret at the abandonment of the exterior system of coast defences. -- interior lines most defective. -- General long attributes these lines to General R. E. Lee. -- error of General long. -- General Pemberton's estimates of the minimum forces necessary for the defence of Charleston. -- General Beauregard assumes command September 24th. -- General Pemberton given command of Department of the Mississippi. -- conference of officers on the 29th. -- matters discussed by them. -- General Beauregard begins the armament of forts and the erection of fortifications. -- anchorage of boom in the main channel. -- alteration made by General Beauregard in the position of the heavy guns. -- enemy attack on St. John's River. -- unprepared condition of the third military district. -- letter to Colonel Walker. -- General Beauregard's system of Signal stations -- its usefulness and success.
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?’