Beaureguard's Tailor...should see this coat!

[Shadow9216]

Went to the Confederate Memorial Hall Museum today, neat little place, most every item on display has a personal history attached to it. It's also right across the street from the D-Day Museum, which was powerful; the Tom Hanks-narrated Beyond All Boundaries is worth the ticket price, although it can be a bit intense (one bit in particular left me shaking in my seat, trying to look cool in front of my classmates when I was about to start climbing the walls).

Here's the coat of PGT Beaureguard (Bragg's coat is right next to it, but refused to be photographed):

 

[Patrick H]

This is the first I've seen of this display. I don't get east of the Mississippi very often. Nice photo, too. Thanks for posting!

 

[Shadow9216]

 

[bankerpapaw]

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What battlefield was the tree stump taken?

 

[TinCan]

Great place, thanks for the pics.

 

[Shadow9216]

What battlefield was the tree stump taken?

No idea- it had a tag for reference in the collection but I didn't see a plate indicating the origin.

 

[reading48]

Cool Photos.....

 

[FarawayFriend]

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At first I thought that was Dan Sickles mummified leg!
I'm glad to hear it is really the tree stump it appears to be!

 

[Custers Luck]

Thanks shadow great of you to post these!!!! Its so nice of all of you who share because a-lot of us like ME!!! have never been to or ever seen or maybe ever will get to see this history in person...... so please keep it up for the sake of the rest of us.!!!!!!!!!

 

[rhettbutler1865]

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I simply have to go there! Nice photos...never seen those...and weren't people smaller (and in better shape) back then?

 

[Booner]

Did you notice how small size of the uniforms? People back then were tiny.
I did volunteer work at the museum back in the 80's and the displays look just the same today as it did back then. Down in the basement, (not open to visitors), they have what looks like a bank vault full of uniforms and they are all so small.

Thanks for the photo's.

rgs,
Booner

 

[Nathanb1]

What battlefield was the tree stump taken?

Oh. I thought that was Leonidas Polk.

 

[Nathanb1]

Went to the Confederate Memorial Hall Museum today, neat little place, most every item on display has a personal history attached to it. It's also right across the street from the D-Day Museum, which was powerful; the Tom Hanks-narrated Beyond All Boundaries is worth the ticket price, although it can be a bit intense (one bit in particular left me shaking in my seat, trying to look cool in front of my classmates when I was about to start climbing the walls).

Here's the coat of PGT Beaureguard (Bragg's coat is right next to it, but refused to be photographed):
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Oh, and thanks. Now I've spit tea on my SCHOOL COMPUTER. Yay.

 

[James N.]

Went to the Confederate Memorial Hall Museum today, neat little place, most every item on display has a personal history attached to it. It's also right across the street from the D-Day Museum, which was powerful; the Tom Hanks-narrated Beyond All Boundaries is worth the ticket price, although it can be a bit intense (one bit in particular left me shaking in my seat, trying to look cool in front of my classmates when I was about to start climbing the walls).

Here's the coat of PGT Beaureguard (Bragg's coat is right next to it, but refused to be photographed):
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The New Orleans Confederate Memorial Museum is a wonderful place with some fascinating artifacts! I'd like to point out that Beauregard's belt plate ( buckle ) is French with the Imperial Eagle of Napoleon III, as likely is the belt itself; the sword is of an English pattern ca. 1796, but I believe it's actually the seldom-seen U.S. Regulation Sword for General Officers that dates pre-war, to the 1840's if I remember right. Beauregard's red-topped kepis seen in the bottom of the case are also regulation for French generals, though I really liked his slightly ridiculous STRAW forage cap he supposedly wore in Charleston's hot and humid summers better.

 

[EricW48]

Yes the authentic uniforms that I have seen come in very small sizes. It often makes me wonder if the examples that exist are in such good shape because they weren't everyday uniforms, too small to fit most guys and regulated to storage. I know most soldiers were, in fact small and slim by today's standards, but some of the uniforms I have seen look too small to fit a 12yr old.

 

[Union_Buff]

Awesome photos Shadow - thanks for posting them!

 

[GELongstreet]

And Beauregard was 5'7; well within the average ... I´d say he even towers over me with my 5'3.

 

[kepi]

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Truly amazing stuff!!!!!!!

 

[kepi]

Do you know the story of that Van Dorn flag?

 

[James N.]

Yes the authentic uniforms that I have seen come in very small sizes. It often makes me wonder if the examples that exist are in such good shape because they weren't everyday uniforms, too small to fit most guys and regulated to storage. I know most soldiers were, in fact small and slim by today's standards, but some of the uniforms I have seen look too small to fit a 12yr old.

This is partly true, especially as far as shipments from shysters and outright crooks who filled government contracts with shipments that were deliberately undersized to the point they couldn't be worn. The inescapable and probably unfortunate fact however is that modern people, Americans especially, are a great deal larger than their forebears. (Especially in girth!)