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?

 

[W Charles Young]

Isreal Richardson

 

[Stryker65]

Isreal Richardson
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But Richardson has a mustache...

 

[W Charles Young]

Thomas W. Sherman

 

[Stryker65]

He was colonel of the 72nd but for less than a year. Col. Buckland became a Brigade commander in the 13th Corps (AOT) and was then promoted to brigadier on November 29,1862.

Then in the creation of the corps didn't he command Sherman's old division? I think after that he commanded Fifth Div XVI Corps and then District of Cairo.

 

[W Charles Young]

Edward Townsend

 

[Pollaco]

Got a question mark by Humphrey Marshall's name. So was he or wasn't he?

 

[rpkennedy]

Got a question mark by Humphrey Marshall's name. So was he or wasn't he?

A general or clean-shaven? In either case, yes.

Ryan

 

[Pollaco]

We've all heard of Silas Casey but have you heard of Edward Canby?

 

[GELongstreet]

Speaking of heard or unheard C-guys, we have the other Cassius Clay.

 

[gc45]

How can we be sure unless they were killed in action? what if these photos were taken after the war? I enjoy old photos of the ones having beards, maybe because I too have one!

 

[Stryker65]

We've all heard of Silas Casey but have you heard of Edward Canby?

lieutenant colonel of 19th U. S. Infantry, formerly major of the 10th U. S. Infantry, and assassinated during the Modoc War

(don't worry, I know about his being a general too )

 

[Stryker65]

How can we be sure unless they were killed in action? what if these photos were taken after the war? I enjoy old photos of the ones having beards, maybe because I too have one!

Perhaps from the diaries of their men, or their friends?

 

[Pollaco]

Robert E. Lee's cousin Edwin Lee was clean shaven I believe

 

[Pollaco]

Ranald MacKenzie

 

[Stryker65]

Robert E. Lee's cousin Edwin Lee was clean shaven I believe

Ranald MacKenzie

we really need to address the Not-Sideburn issue here

 

[Cavalier]

I never would have thought there were this many.

John

 

[Pollaco]

I never would have thought there were this many.

John

Oh, I bet there's a few more out there, has Alexander Campbell been mentioned?

 

[Pollaco]

I seemed to have "misplaced" my list.

 

[Library Lady]

There certainly weren't many! But what about Major General Francis C. Barlow?
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He was described by Meade as looking like "a highly independent newsboy".

Whatever Meade (or his aide) thought Barlow looked like, Ellen Shaw (Robert Gould Shaw's sister) must have liked the look because she married him after the war.

 

[Pollaco]

Robert Toombs was clean shaven in the cabinet but how was he as a brigadier general?