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Collection material in English
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the LC Catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically.
The greater part of the papers of G. T. Beauregard, United States and Confederate Army officer, engineer, railroad executive, and public official, was purchased by the Library of Congress in 1915. Other items were donated or purchased from 1909 to 1972.
The Beauregard Papers were processed in 1963. An addition was made in 1978, and the collection was prepared for microfilming in 1984. The finding aid was revised in 2003.
The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of G. T. Beauregard is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
The papers of G. T. Beauregard are open to research. Researchers are advised to contact the Manuscript Reading Room prior to visiting. Many collections are stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use.
A microfilm edition of these papers is available on nine reels. Consult reference staff in the Manuscript Division concerning availability for purchase or interlibrary loan. To promote preservation of the originals, researchers are required to consult the microfilm edition as available.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container or reel number, G. T. Beauregard Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The papers of Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard (1818-1893) consist of a diary, personal letterbooks, military records, the manuscript of "Reminiscences" which served as the basis for Alfred Roman's
The few early items in the collection relate to Beauregard's career as an engineer in New Orleans and on the staff of General Winfield Scott in Mexico, where Beauregard took part in the siege of Vera Cruz and the battles of Cerro Gordo, Contreras, and Mexico City. The bulk of the correspondence, the military papers, and the "Reminiscences" relate to Beauregard's service as an officer of the Confederate Army. He was in command of the troops at Charleston, South Carolina, when the Civil War began with the siege of Fort Sumter. The papers also document his role in the battles of First Manassas and Shiloh, in the sieges of Corinth, Charleston, and Petersburg, and in the consolidation of Southern forces after the battle of Atlanta.
Material on Beauregard's career as a railroad executive and public official in New Orleans and supervisor of the Louisiana lottery can be found in his letterbooks. Three volumes of scrapbooks of newspaper clippings are devoted almost exclusively to the Civil War.
Principal correspondents include Milledge L. Bonham, Braxton Bragg, Howell Cobb, Samuel Cooper, Jefferson Davis, Augusta J. Evans, Wade Hampton, William Joseph Hardee, Daniel Harvey Hill, John Bell Hood, Joseph E. Johnston, Thomas Jordan, Robert E. Lee, James Longstreet, F.W. Pickens, Leonidas Polk, R. S. Ripley, Joseph Gilbert Totten, Earl Van Dorn, and Leroy Pope Walker.
The collection is arranged in six series:
Available on microfilm. Shelf no. 19,007
Beauregard's diary.
Copies of correspondence.
Arranged chronologically.
Letterbooks, telegrams, dispatches, endorsement books, order books, transfer books, registers, and rosters.
Arranged alphabetically by military department or division and therein by type of material.
A register containing entries for various Confederate military units, two volumes containing copies of letters, and notes and genealogical and biographical material.
Scrapbooks.
Arranged in approximate chronological order.
Correspondence, notes, reports, and calling cards.
Arranged by type of material.