I hadn’t seen this one before. Little Tad and his pony.
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=932549105584232&set=a.480363214136159
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Looks like a Morgan.
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Tad did more than photo op on his pony
Pennsylvania drummer-boy Harry M. Kieffer reported on a presidential review of the Army of the Potomac: “Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln in a carriage, escorted by a body of cavalry and groups of officers, and at the head of the cavalcade Master Tad, big with importance, mounted on a pony, and having for his especial escort a boy orderly, dressed in a cavalry-man’s uniform, and mounted on another pony! And the two little fellows, scarce restraining their boyish delight, outride the company, and come on the field in a cloud of dust and at a full gallop, – little Tad shouting to the men, at the top of his voice: ‘Make way, men! Make way, men! Father’s a-coming! Father’s a-coming!’”
Tad in his officer’s uniform
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The First Family’s son Tad, receives a South American pony as a gift from Colonel Joseph B. Stewart, whom he met while visiting New York.
Washington Chronicle - November 15, 1863
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Interesting how they used to put little boys in officer’s uniforms. Maybe only the upper classes did that, so this is an interesting look at the changes in Abraham Lincoln’s life from his rustic beginnings.
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Cool! You know, I thought it looked like a Peruvian Paso Fino, but couldn’t see how that was possible.
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