[marktwain]

It is widely known that Beauregard ordered the attack on his own hook. Even Wikipedia gets it right:

“Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard was an American military officer known for being the Confederate general who started the American Civil War at the battle of Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861.”

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This source says the general was sent by the Confederacy to take control of Fort Sumter. It appears he was doing what he was ordered to do.

He was not relieved of his command, and continued in service through the end of the war between the states (civil war).

https://64parishes.org/entry/p-g-t-beauregard-adaptation

[odawg]

That source is wrong. He was not sent there to party, certainly, but he was not ordered by the Confederate government to fire on Ft. Sumter. The Confederacy at the time had sent reps to Lincoln to talk peace. Lincoln loved the attack. He got his war.