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    Posted: 24-Mar-2012 at 19:27
Originally posted by Don Quixote

http://www.sonofthesouth.net/union-generals/mcclellan/pictures/george-b-mcclellan-300.jpg
Is this the right CcClellan you are talking about? All the pictures I found of him show him only with mustachios.



That's right. Little Mac, one of the more incompetent generals of the war, had no beard. Unlike Jackson, Lee and Stuart
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In every photo i've seen, Sherman looks like a mean drunk. He was probably the type who would punch you in the eye for looking at him the wrong way
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  Quote Leroy Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 08-Apr-2012 at 21:12
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I don't know who this is, but he looks like the wrong guy to mess with. LOL

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  Quote Nick1986 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 09-Apr-2012 at 19:51

Later in the war General Pope changed his facial hair from a chin goatee to a full beard, giving him an uncanny resemblence to Tom Cruise in the Last Samurai
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  Quote Nick1986 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 10-Apr-2012 at 21:33

John Brown: part Moses, part Rambo, totally badass
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Does anyone else think Ambrose Burnside looks like a walrus?LOL
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  Quote Nick1986 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11-Jun-2012 at 19:50

No topic would be complete without an image of Old Abe's chin curtain. He grew a beard after a little girl wrote to him and said it would make him look more distinguished
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Henry Wirz, commandant of Andersonville and the only Civil War officer executed for war crimes
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  Quote Nick1986 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13-Aug-2012 at 19:18

Jeff Davis' beard only covered his chin, unlike Old Abe's full beard
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