Editing P. G. T. Beauregard (section)

===Civil rights legacy===
Beauregard lived a paradoxical life. Unlike many ex-Confederates, he did not look back on "the planting South and the mellow glories of the ancient regime" but looked toward the future of the international house of Louisiana, to the industrial district of New Orleans, and a bustling delta of a better tomorrow.{{tone inline|date=May 2024}}<ref>Williams, p. 348.</ref>

Beauregard was admired by many because of his work after the war, and when he went to a meeting in [[Waukesha, Wisconsin]] in 1889, he was given the title by a local reporter of "Sir Galahad of [[Southern Chivalry]]". A Northerner at the meeting welcomed Beauregard, commenting on the fact that 25 years ago, the North "did not feel very kindly toward him; but the past was dead and now they admired him". Beauregard responded by saying: "As to my past life, I have always endeavored to do my duty under all circumstances, from the point I entered West Point, a boy of seventeen, up to the present". He was then loudly applauded.<ref>Williams, pp. 338–340.</ref>

Following Beauregard's death in 1893, [[Victor E. Rillieux]], a [[Creoles of color|Creole of color]] and poet who wrote poems for many famous contemporary civil rights activists, including [[Ida B. Wells]], was moved by Beauregard's passing to create a poem titled "Dernier Tribut" ({{langx|en|"Last Tribute"}}).<ref name="Our People and Our History: Fifty Creole Portraits">{{Cite book |title=Our People and Our History: Fifty Creole Portraits |author=Rodolphe Lucien Desdunes |date = 1973 |volume = |publisher =Louisiana State University Press |page =59 }}</ref>