Who Had the Best Civil War Facial Hair?

[wellinghall]

I urge you all to go here, gaze in wonder, and vote.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Who-Had-the-Best-Civil-War-Facial-Hair.html

Comments

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

I went for Winfield Hancock

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

John Dunlap Stevenson for me. But there can be no wrong choices.

[pellegrina.livejournal.com]

Alpheus Williams is my man. Excellent composition.

[jane-somebody.livejournal.com]

He got my vote too. But Ambrose Burnside seems to have it by a landslide. An excellent array of names on display as well as facial hair!

[el-staplador.livejournal.com]

Adelbert Ames. Looks just like Professor Calculus'.

[widsidh.livejournal.com]

seconded.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Ah, him. I was never a Tin-tin fan, I'm afraid.

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

W.B. Hazen. It's all about the waxed moustache. I miss mine...

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I was sorry not to see it in the flesh.

[jane-somebody.livejournal.com]

Also sorry not to see it in person - why did it get the chop?

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

My department at work did a charity beard-growing for Barnardo's. Those of us with existing beards also were able to take part. At the end of the growing period, we had a department meeting and members of the department were presented with a range of facial hair options. Then every beard was auctioned off - basically people bid on what style we had to shave our beards into.

Tragically, the style with the highest bid for me was mutton chops / no moustache, so the long moustache had to go.

We raised £500 though.

[jane-somebody.livejournal.com]

Aw :-( But well done! :-) And I see no reason there not to grow it again :-)