People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1893 — GEN. BEAUREGARD DEAD. [ARTICLE]

GEN. BEAUREGARD DEAD.

He Passes Away Rather Suddenly at New Orleans—He Was the East of the FullRank Confederate Oeuerals. New Orleans, Feb. 21.—Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, the last survivor of the confederate military leaders who attained the full rank of general, died at 10:10 o’clock Monday night of heart failure. He bade his son good-night and was left with the sick-nurses, who have been kept within call since the commencement of his illness. He dropped quietly off to sleep and seemed to be resting well. A few moments after 10 o’clock one of the nurses went to look at him and was startled to hear the noise of the death rattle in his throat. The members of the family were quickly summoned, but before they reached the bedside the general had passed away. The funeral will be held Wednesday. [Gen. Beauregard was born at New Orleans in 1818. He was graduated from West Point military academy m 1838 and was at first assigned to the artillery, whence he was subsequently transferred to the corps of engineers. He served in the Mexican war and was twice wounded. He was promoted to a captaincy of engineers in 1853 and was on duty superintending the erection of government buildings in New Orleans and fortifications on the gulf coast till January, 1801, when he was for five days (January 23-28) superintendent of the United States military academy at West Point He resigned February 20, 18Si, to join the confederates, and began the civil war by the bombardment of Fort Sumter April 12, 1881. He was in actual command of the southern troops at Bull Run July 21,1801, in which the fcderals experienced a reverse: for this service he was made a brigadier general. He was second In command under Gen. Albert Sydney Johnston at the battle of Shiloh, or Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., April 6, 1862, and In the summer and autumn of 1863 successfully defended Charleston and Its outworks when besieged by Gen. Gilmore. He was subsequently connected with the army of Joseph E. Johnston in North Carolina up to the time of that general’s surrender, April 26, 1865. which brought the war to a close. At the end of the war he had attained the rank of full general, the highest grade in the service. Since the termination of the war Gen. Beauregard had resided In the southern states. He became president of the New Orleans, Jackson & Mississippi railroad, and for a number of years had been one of the managers of the Louisiana state lottery.