...nsibilities which our profession and associations engender, to shield me, for the present, from these ill-timed, unaccountable annoyances. Respectfully, your obedient servant, G. T. Beauregard, Gen. Comdg . Though, as between General Beauregard and the Secretary of War personally, these letters were well answered by a significant silence on the part of the former, yet they produced on his mind ...