Grahame Long curator,of the Charleston Museum with Gen. P.G.T.
Beauregard’s saddle. Beauregard ordered the custom pigskin saddle from a
Paris firm while commander of Confederate forces in Charleston. The
saddle came in Friday night to the Charleston Museum. The saddle will be
on exhibit at the museum through July 18, 2013.
Coming into Charleston early in the Civil War, in 1862, a Southern blockade runner was stopped by a Union ship, which took all its cargo.
Gen. Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard’s saddle was on
that blockade runner, confiscated 151 years ago. Now it’s finally
reached its original drop-off location.
Beauregard, who took Fort Sumter for the Confederacy at
the war’s beginning and protected Charleston through the Civil War’s
duration, is one of eight men to ever hold the rank of full general for
the Confederacy.
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