Beauregard

When near the town we met a man on horseback who shouted that Beauregard had opened fire on Sumter.

The delay had been so great that Beauregard now advised a countermarch back to Corinth.

His resolution was to conquer or die; and he replied to Beauregard: "We shall attack at daylight to-morrow."

"I shall open fire in one hour," was the last message of Beauregard, at twenty minutes past three on the morning of the 12th.

Beauregard, the rising star of the South, came from Charleston, to reap fresh laurels at Manassas.