The September 2011 Smithsonian Magazine had a short blurb on voting they had going on at the time for the Best Facial Hair of the Civil War and a picture of George Crook who had an all-time great set of mutton chops, or, at least I think that's what you call them. At the time, Ambrose Burnside had received the most votes with 18,385. He is where we get the term "Sideburns" and had over double the votes of #2, J.E.B. Stuart.
They had a site to cast your vote and it was still up and they are still taking votes. I had to vote for the Fort Fisher guy, Adelbert Ames.
They have about 30 Civil War people to vote for and most of them are mighty interesting as far as facial hair. Give it a look and vote:
http://smithsonian.com/beard
It's a Far, Far Hairier Thing We Do Than Ever Before. --RoadDog
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