Gen. Beauregard is doubly doomed. A few weeks ago, when the
blackness of midnight brooded over our cause, there were some intimations, I know
not whether they were well founded, that Certain high functionaries were making
arrangements for a flight to France; and Gen. Beauregard getting intimation of an
order to move certain sums in bullion in the custody of an Assistant Treasurer
in his military department, forbid its departure until he could be certain that
it was not destined to leave the Confederacy. I have not learned its ultimate
destination; but the victory of the Seven Pines intervening, Gen. Beauregard
has been relieved of his command, “on sick leave.” But I know his army is to be
commanded permanently by Gen. Bragg. There are charges against Beauregard. It
is said the Yankee army might have been annihilated at Shiloh, if Beauregard
had fought a little longer.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 134-5
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