Here is how Beauregard replied to Gillmore concerning Gillmore's bombardment of Charleston civilians: "It would appear, sir, that despairing of reducing these works [Sumter and Morris Island], you now resort to the novel measure of turning your guns against the old men, the women and children, and the hospitals of a sleeping city, an act of inexcusable barbarity..."
Even the free Negro fire brigade who put out the first fire lit by Gillmore's shells were heard to mutter, "cussed bobolitionists" (abolitionists). [from Burton's book on the Siege of Charleston].
Nah, stuck pig. His reputation preceeded him. Davis thought that he was a coward.