P. G. T. Beauregard P. G. T. Beauregard Pierre-Gustave Toutant de Beauregard (May 28, 1818 – February 20, 1893) was an American military officer who was the first prominent general of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Today, he is commonly referred to as P. G. T. Beauregard, but he rarely used his first name as an adult. He signed correspondence as G. T. Beauregard. Trained as a civil engineer at the United States Military Academy, Beauregard served with distinction as an engineer in the Mexican–American War. Following a brief appointment as superintendent at West Point in 1861, after the South
History of the Office of The Inspector General of the United States Army of colonels of cavalry. Parker's position was eliminated. During the Mexican–American War, the inspector general served as second in command of the army. From 1821 to 1861, the position went relatively unchanged. Upon the outbreak of the American Civil War, all inspectors had retired or defected to the Confederate States of America. In 1861, new inspectors were appointed, but they largely did what their superiors requested. There were many informally appointed inspectors. By late 1862, "Nearly 1,400 other officers were on orders at one time or another to perform various types of inspection duties." In January 1863, Delos Bennett Sackett