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Senior Writer @NRO. Reaganite, Catholic, Mets fan, ex-lawyer. Opinions 100% my own, but you can share them. Not the Cardinals broadcaster.

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    1. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Sep 5

      PGT Beauregard was not a reformed man on race after the Civil War, but the white South would have done better to heed his pragmatic effort to reach an accommodation that treated black civil rights as an accomplished fact.pic.twitter.com/tApgJVMhoJ

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    2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Sep 5

      Quotes are from Harry Williams' 1955 biography of Beauregard, which is excellent but, of course, reflects the attitudes of its own time. Beauregard is perhaps the most interesting figure among the Confederate generals, as well as being emblematic of why they lost the war.

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    3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Sep 5

      Maybe the most insane thing in Beauregard's career is that he was appointed to head West Point...at the end of 1860, when it should have been quite obvious that his loyalty would be questionable at best.

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    4. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Sep 5

      He was an excellent soldier, as good a commander of a defensive position as anyone in the war, but also a wildly impractical schemer in drafting offensive plans, out of his depth commanding an army in motion, & one of the worst infighters in the Confederacy's dysfunctional team.

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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Sep 5

      Beaurgeard was the Zelig of the Confederate Army: Ft Sumter, First Bull Run, Shiloh, Fort Wagner, the Hunley, Petersburg, Sherman's March. He ordered the first shots of the war fired; he & Johnston sat with Jefferson Davis & told him it was over & time to give up.

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        2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Sep 5

          His path after the war was a middle ground between Longstreet & Mosby, who repented & tried to make amends, & people like Forrest who aimed to continue the war by other means & fought against black equal rights. Not an honorable path, but a practical one.

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        3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Sep 5

          Beauregard actually came fairly close after the war to taking a foreign military command. He had talks, & occasionally even offers, with Brazil, Egypt, Romania, France, & Argentina. The Brazilian job would have put him in the midst of the War of the Triple Alliance.

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        4. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Sep 5

          In strictly military terms, Beauregard's defense of the siege of Charleston looks more impressive when you consider how few of the great sieges between Rome in 1849 & Paris in 1871 were defended successfully. Davis erred by not sending him to defend Vicksburg or Atlanta.

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        5. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Sep 5

          With a few exceptions - Lucknow, Chattanooga, Shanghai - the roll call of great sieges in those years were mostly won by the besiegers: Rome, Sevastopol, Nanjing (x2), Vicksburg, Humaita, Petersburg, Anqing, Delhi, Hakodate, Queretaro, Paris (x2), etc.

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        6. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Sep 5

          Emblematic of Beauregard's career is how he reacted to the deaths of Abraham Lincoln & Jefferson Davis:pic.twitter.com/eCO0LbH264

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        1. Dr. Nicholas Mosvick‏ @nmosvick Sep 6
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          For me, Beauregard's worst moment in the war came at the second day at Shiloh once he replaced the dead Albert Sidney Johnson, with his listless, bloody blunder of a renewed assault against Grant's forces bolstered by Buell's arrival. Did you think he did worse later in the war?

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