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P. G. T. Beauregard: Napoleon in Gray (Southern Biography Series)

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First published in 1955 to wide acclaim, T. Harry Williams’ P.G.T. Beauregard is universally thought to be “the first authoritative portrait of the Confederacy’s all the time dramatic, incessantly perplexing” general (Chicago Tribune). Chivalric, arrogant, and of exotic Creole Louisiana origin, Beauregard participated in each and every phase of the Civil War from its starting to its end. He rigidly adhered to principles of war derived from his studies of Jomini and Napoleon, and yet many of his battle plans were rejected by his superiors, who regarded him as excitable, unreliable, and contentious. After the war, Beauregard was once almost the one prominent Confederate general who adapted successfully to the New South, running railroads and later supervising the notorious Louisiana Lottery. This paradox of a man who fought gallantly to defend the Old South after which helped industrialize it’s the fascinating subject of Williams’ very good biography.

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