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Col. Nathan Lord, 6th Vt. Inf.
 
Nice mutton chops.
A better Civil War connection is 'dundrearies.'
dundrearies
[duhn-dreer-eez]
plural noun, ( sometimes initial capital letter)
1. long, full sideburns or muttonchop whiskers.
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/dundrearies

In the United States, Our American Cousin by Tom Taylor is often best remembered as the play Abraham Lincoln was watching at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., when he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. Word lovers may also recall that the show gave us "dundrearies," a name for the long, bushy sideburns (called "Piccadilly weepers" in England). The term for that particular men's hair fashion, which was popular between 1840 and 1870, comes from the name of Lord Dundreary, a character in the play who sported those elegant whiskers. The name can also be used in the attributive form "dundreary whiskers."
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dundrearies

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A better Civil War connection is 'dundrearies.'
dundrearies
[duhn-dreer-eez]
plural noun, ( sometimes initial capital letter)
1. long, full sideburns or muttonchop whiskers.
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/dundrearies

In the United States, Our American Cousin by Tom Taylor is often best remembered as the play Abraham Lincoln was watching at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., when he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. Word lovers may also recall that the show gave us "dundrearies," a name for the long, bushy sideburns (called "Piccadilly weepers" in England). The term for that particular men's hair fashion, which was popular between 1840 and 1870, comes from the name of Lord Dundreary, a character in the play who sported those elegant whiskers. The name can also be used in the attributive form "dundreary whiskers."
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dundrearies

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Cool. Never heard dundrearies before. It is true that you learn something new every day.
 
The most notable things about Jenkins are his excessively large sardine tins and Maltese Cross badge of the V Corps .
Sardine tins = shoulder straps?

In relation to this business, in the current issue of the magazine The Civil War Monitor, in a sidebar feature entitled Subpar Officers there was this August, 1861, quote from his diary by Surgeon Alfred Castleman, 5th Wisconsin Infantry: "Since I came here, I think I can tell a man's calibre by his shoulder-straps. The amount of brain is generally in inverse proportion to the size of his straps."
 
In relation to this business, in the current issue of the magazine The Civil War Monitor, in a sidebar feature entitled Subpar Officers there was this August, 1861, quote from his diary by Surgeon Alfred Castleman, 5th Wisconsin Infantry: "Since I came here, I think I can tell a man's calibre by his shoulder-straps. The amount of brain is generally in inverse proportion to the size of his straps."
I love it!
 
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