We need some real beards.

[Mike Serpa]

Oh my goodness! I want to know the story behind this one!

Also Mr. Longbeard. How does he get around?

That's one I don't want to know the story!

Mr. Longbeard? He walks backwards.

 

[Yankeedave]

Alas that I cannot be hirsute like these gents.



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I always get the impression that Walt Whitman is in the middle of telling a very good joke here.

Whitman looks like the joke is leaves of grass.

 

[Yankeedave]

That young gentleman is not him but his aide Thomas J. Goree.

Who can tell with the beards.

 

[rosefiend]

Whitman looks like the joke is leaves of grass.

NO

Just messing with you (kind of)

 

[Yankeedave]

Whitman doesn't look paranoid just hungry.

 

[Greyfalcon]

Mr. Longbeard? He walks backwards.

He'd have to, wouldn't he?

 

[Yankeedave]

There is a tribe that beleives we walk backwards thru time the past before us the future behind. I guess they didn't want to walk on their beards either.

 

[D.H. Hill]

Major Gen. Cadmus M. Wilcox, C.S.A.

 

[E_just_E]

Major Gen. Cadmus M. Wilcox, C.S.A.
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Those sideburns were very very short lived. Maybe just for the months that led to that picture

Mr Congeniality in the ACW. From both sides. Really interesting guy. 4 Union and 4 Confederate veterans were his pallbearers.

Digressing, but, yeah, those side whiskers did not last much...

 

[Eleanor Rose]

Oh my goodness! I want to know the story behind this one!

Also Mr. Longbeard. How does he get around?

I'm with you, rosefiend! There has to be a story behind Mr. Longbeard. I would love to hear it!

 

[LoriAnn]

In a weak moment, I would dare him to strut about town naked with just the beard wrapped around key areas.

Then I'd be sorry he did it.

 

[Irishtom29]

Westerners looking pretty clean cut outside Atlanta. I assume this gave less problems with cooties.

 

[chubachus]

My animations of stereoscopic portraits of unidentified gentlemen by Mathew Brady (warning: many large beards inside):

 

[chubachus]

Alas that I cannot be hirsute like these gents.
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I've actually been on the lookout for men wearing neckties in the 1860's and this is the first one I can recall seeing. Any idea who he is?

 

[Mike Serpa]

My animations of stereoscopic portraits of unidentified gentlemen by Mathew Brady (warning: many large beards inside):

2:10 - looks like he is burning in flames!

 

[Rally_Around_the_Flag]

No Civil War facial hair thread is complete without this guy:

 

[MRB1863]

...and Albert Gallatin Jenkins...

 

[Eleanor Rose]

General Longstreet could rock (pardon the pun) a nice beard even in his late seventies! Just saying! This image was downloaded from The Longstreet Society.

 

[Private Watkins]

Hazzard Perry Baker post-war real beard...

Does anyone know what critical role ole Hazz played in 1865...?

 

[rosefiend]

I've actually been on the lookout for men wearing neckties in the 1860's and this is the first one I can recall seeing. Any idea who he is?

Here's your man: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/526437

He's identified only as:
R. Cornwallis
From RG: 111
Mathew Brady Photographs of Civil War-Era Personalities and Scenes
National Archives Identifier: 526437 Local Identifier: 111-B-2243