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BEAUREGARD, PIERRE G. T.

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BEAUREGARD, PIERRE G. T.
(1818 - 1893) Confederate major general who initiated the attack on Fort Sumter which started the Civil War. Beauregard also led with great distinction at First Bull Run, Shiloh, and in the defense of Richmond. Unusual, fine content A.L.S. 1p. 8vo., New Orleans, Apr. 22, 1866, in French to a lady, in part: ""...Please accept my thanks for the beautiful cane which you had the goodness to send me. It will be one of these days when the suffering of age will lay me down...Permit me of offer you, in return, a thing which only has value in the eyes of my friends: my photograph taken by Charleton in 1863 during the siege..."". Slight soiling, folds, overall very good.