JANUARY 26, 1862:
P.G.T. Beauregard, the Confederate hero of Fort Sumter and
First Manassas is relegated to relative obscurity when President Jefferson
Davis orders him to Kentucky to serve under General Albert Sidney Johnston.
Beauregard had angered Davis by writing and having disseminated a number of
self-serving correspondences critical of Davis. As a matter of fact, this
became a pattern of Davis’: When irritated by a commander, he would reassign
him to a sinecure or to the Western Theater, often allowing his emotions to
override the detachment needed for military decisionmaking.
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