Camp Beauregard, near Pineville in central Louisiana, honors the Confederate general Pierre G. T. Beauregard, West Point class of 1838. Beauregard came from a prominent slave-owning family in Louisiana. He then married into one of the state’s wealthiest families. His wife’s family, the Villerés, benefited from the 95 enslaved workers on forced-labor sugar farms. In 1850, his wife died in childbirth. Beauregard then married Caroline Deslonde, whose family owned 160 enslaved workers.
