1-624-536 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

General PGT Beauregard, Confederate Army general, 1862-1867. As commander of the forces in Charleston, South Carolina, Beauregard (1818-1893) ordered his troops to open fire on the Union garrison at Fort Sumter, the opening engagement of the Civil War. He commanded the Confederate Army to victory at the First Battle of Bull Run, the first major battle of the war. An engraving from volume I of The War with the South : a History of the Late Rebellion, by Robert Tomes, Benjamin G Smith, New York, Virtue & Yorston, 3 Volumes, 1862-1867.