USA HISTORY

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR(1861 1865)

THE FIRST BATTLE OF BULL RUN

[SOURCES]
what state did General P.G.T. Beauregard camp near?

(A) Washington dc

(B) ** Virginia

(C) Maryland

(D) Flordia

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -Beauregard was the first prominent Confederate general. He commanded the defenses of Charleston, South Carolina, during the Battle of Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, and three months later was the victor at the First Battle of Bull Run near Manassas, Virginia.

Concept note-2: -A native of Louisiana, Beauregard resigned from the U.S. Army in February 1861 and ordered the first shots of the Civil War during the bombardment of Fort Sumter in April 1861.

Concept note-3: -Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard was a Louisiana-born author, civil servant, politician, inventor, and first prominent general for the Confederacy. Beauregard was trained as a civil engineer at the United States Military Academy and served with distinction as an engineer in the Mexican-American War.