Bearded Generals and Admirals

[samgrant]

Funny the things one comes across while searching for info on something else.

eg. this list: http://blissisnow.org/Beards/generals.asp

Why don't you all submit your favorites and then we can have a poll on which commander had the best beard!

Please add any you know of that are not on this list.

 

[ole]

Best beard? J.E.B. Stuart in the movie, "Gettysburg."
Ole

 

[samgrant]

I had thought to mention, in my thread, that it was about real beards, and not to include fantastically absurd phony beards such as those depicted in TV melodramas or films like 'Gettysburg', but I decided: naw, that would be understood. I forgot about Ole.

 

[samgrant]

Here's some candidates: need links as can't post pics.

http://www.generalsandbrevets.com/ngb/baxter.htm

http://www.generalsandbrevets.com/ngb/belknap.htm

http://www.generalsandbrevets.com/ngc/curtisnm.htm

http://www.generalsandbrevets.com/ngg/geary2.htm

http://www.generalsandbrevets.com/ngk/knipe.htm

http://www.generalsandbrevets.com/ngm/mclean.htm

http://www.generalsandbrevets.com/ngr/robinsonjs.htm

http://www.generalsandbrevets.com/ngv/vandever.htm

http://www.generalsandbrevets.com/sga/andersongb.htm

http://www.generalsandbrevets.com/sgc/cook.htm

http://www.generalsandbrevets.com/sgh/hillap.htm

http://www.generalsandbrevets.com/sgj/jacksontj2.htm

http://www.generalsandbrevets.com/sgj/jenkinsag.htm

http://www.generalsandbrevets.com/sgj/joneswe.htm

http://www.generalsandbrevets.com/sgl/longstreet2.htm

http://www.generalsandbrevets.com/sgm/mahone.htm

http://www.generalsandbrevets.com/sgr/ruggles.htm

http://www.generalsandbrevets.com/sgs/stevenson.htm

http://www.generalsandbrevets.com/sgs/stuart2.htm

http://www.generalsandbrevets.com/sgw/walkerwht.htm

http://www.generalsandbrevets.com/sgw/wrightar.htm

http://www.generalsandbrevets.com/sgw/wigfall.htm

http://www.generalsandbrevets.com/sgw/wrightar.htm


Sorry, don't have pic of most admirals but here is Porter:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:David_Dixon_Porter.jpg



As to the issue of best mustache, the hands down winner is John A. Logan, with John Breckinridge a distant second.

 

[blue_zouave]

I was always fond of that trim little number that Rosecrans sported. Very natty, that fellow.

Zou

 

[ole]

Most distinctive? Ambrose Burnside. Was it a moustache? Or a beard with a naked chin? And, for different? What's with Lincoln's beard but no mustache?

Trivia: At West Point, J.E.B. Stuart was nicknamed "Beauty." Why?
Ole

 

[samgrant]

One story is that he had a receding chin, which was later concealed by his massive beard. Maybe he was a 'pretty boy'.

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[ole]

Is that JEB? Doesn't look like a picture I saw in which his chin was not particularly jutting manfully. This one (if it's himself) shows nothing of the kind. Maybe some girlie-man gave him the name?

The eyes have it. That's JEB. I've been deceived!:jawdrop:

 

[samgrant]

Is that JEB? Doesn't look like a picture I saw in which his chin was not particularly jutting manfully. This one (if it's himself) shows nothing of the kind. Maybe some girlie-man gave him the name?

The eyes have it. That's JEB. I've been deceived!:jawdrop:

http://www.generalsandbrevets.com/sgs/stuart.htm


Let us not contemplate a 'don't ask, don't tell' situation at West Point circa 1830-1860, please!

By the way, could that be Kilpatrick on the right? And who might be the fellow on the left?

 

[ole]

Could very well be Kilpatrick on the right. Have no idea who might be the man on the left. Date of the photo? Circumstance?

 

[Calicoboy]

beards

My vote would have to go to Joseph King Fenno Mansfield. Great beard and wild hairdo. Yes, he was a Union general

Calicoboy