Gov. Jeff Landry directs the renaming of Louisiana National Guard Training Center Pineville to Camp Beauregard, July 14.
On July 18, 1917, Camp Beauregard was originally established as one of 16 National Guard camps by the United States War Department, three months after Congress declared war on Germany. Purchased by Louisiana in 1920, it was federalized in 1940 for the Louisiana Maneuvers.
The ...