Clean-shaven generals

[Stryker65]

I've been thinking lately...how many fully-clean-shaven generals were there?

The only ones I know of are:
Maj. Gen. John A. Wharton:

Maj. Gen. Sterling Price:

Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker:

Maj. Gen. Wesley Merritt:

Any others?

 

[Fairfield]

There certainly weren't many! But what about Major General Francis C. Barlow?

He was described by Meade as looking like "a highly independent newsboy".

 

[W Charles Young]

Henry Halleck

 

[W Charles Young]

Samuel Cooper

 

[ConfederateCanuck]

Hard to believe any existed at all...you learn something new every day!

 

[W Charles Young]

John Wool

 

[Fairfield]

Do you think that Gen. Hooker passes? Would you count those fuzzy sideburns as facial hair? He may flunk the Washington Post's Hair-to-Face criteria https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...reatest-beards-of-the-civil-war-in-one-chart/

 

[Stryker65]

Do you think that Gen. Hooker passes? Would you count those fuzzy sideburns as facial hair? He may flunk the Washington Post's Hair-to-Face criteria https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...reatest-beards-of-the-civil-war-in-one-chart/

I was thinking the same about General Halleck @W Charles Young

 

[nc native]

William Roberts of North Carolina was clean shaven. He was only twenty three when he was promoted to the rank of general in 1864 so he was still pretty young to be growing facial hair.

 

[W Charles Young]

Edward R. S. Canby

 

[W Charles Young]

Robert Anderson

 

[W Charles Young]

John Dix

 

[W Charles Young]

Wow, this is a real rabbit hole! Schuyler Hamilton

 

[W Charles Young]

Ethan Allen Hitchcock

 

[W Charles Young]

Stephen Hurlbut

 

[rpkennedy]

Brigadier General William Barksdale.

Ryan

 

[PA Gary]

Brigadier General Ormsby M. Mitchel

 

[General Casey]

Edward Baker

And although he is commonly referred to as a Colonel, it seems that he was actually appointed to Brigadier General in May 1861

 

[rpkennedy]

Depending on how we count sideburns, James Wadsworth.

Brevet Brigadier General Joseph W. Fisher of the Pennsylvania Reserves.

Brigadier General William F. Bartlett

 

[PA Gary]

General John E. Wool