Identifier: genrobertedwardl00broc (find matches)
Title: Gen. Robert Edward Lee; soldier, citizen, and Christian patriot
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Brock, R. A. (Robert Alonzo), 1839-1914
Subjects: Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870
Publisher: Richmond, Va., B. F. Johnson Publishing Co
Contributing Library: State Library of North Carolina, Government & Heritage Library
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GENERAL G. T. BEAUREGARD. General Beauregard was born near New Orleans, May aSth, 1818.His father was James Toutant Beauregard, and his mother MarieToutant de Reggio, a lady of Italian descent. His baptismal namewas Gustave Pierre Toutant. Having passed his youth in the parishof his birth and having developed while a lad a decided inclinationfor military affairs, he secured an appointment to West Point, andwas graduated second in the class of 38. Hardee and Sibley, whobecame Confederate generals, and McDowell, Granger, Berry andNichols, who commanded on. the Union side in the last war, wereamong his classmates. Graduating well, and being thus entitled toselect the arm of the service in which he would cast his life, hejoined the engineer corps, and was immediately assigned to assistin the construction of Fort Adams, Newport. In the following yearhe was transferred to the passes of the Mississippi, where he remainedfor three years, when he went to Fort McHenry, Maryland. The Mexican War

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