Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's . instant reply, I should vault on the cheval defrise and put off af-ter him! In 1847, LieutenantBeauregard was in charge ofengineer works at Tampico,having been with GeneralScott throughout the warand been twice he had other responsi-ble posts; as from 1853 to1860, when he was incharge of lake defenses ofLouisiana and at the sametime superintended thebuilding of the customhouse at New Orleans. OnNovember twentieth of thatyear he was appointedsuperintendent of the West Point Academy and resignedhis commission in the February of the next year.
Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's . instant reply, I should vault on the cheval defrise and put off af-ter him! In 1847, LieutenantBeauregard was in charge ofengineer works at Tampico,having been with GeneralScott throughout the warand been twice he had other responsi-ble posts; as from 1853 to1860, when he was incharge of lake defenses ofLouisiana and at the sametime superintended thebuilding of the customhouse at New Orleans. OnNovember twentieth of thatyear he was appointedsuperintendent of the West Point Academy and resignedhis commission in the February of the next year. Bythe first of March he was in command of the Confederatearmy then organizing and was more spoken of for perman-ent commander-in-chief than anyone save General BraxtonBragg. He was later made one of the six full generals,and fought in the first and last battles of the war. What this high-natured gentleman and true soldier didin war is familiar history. He and his young sons wentearliest to the front, and from Sumter to surrender there. GENERAL G. T. BEAUREGARD BELLES, BEAUX AND BRAINS OF THE SIXTIES 297 was no important movement in which their name does notappear. The old name took on a new splendor that shoneacross seas. Two years after our war, another was imminentbetween the Danubian principalities and Roumania, andchief command of the latters armies was offered Beaure-gard. That—and a similar one made two years later bythe khedive of Egypt—he declined, to remain with his ownpeople. He built two of her railroads; designed the greatstreet railway system of New Orleans; and later, with Gen-eral Early, supervised the Louisiana lottery. The general was twice married; his first wife having beenthe woman acknowledged the most beautiful and the mostcharming of the belles of her day. In widowerhood, years later, he wedded Mile, CarolineDeslondes, one of the four beautiful and brilliant sistersof that great old Creole family. They were Henriette, ; Mathilda, Mrs. Slidell
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