The War Between the Barbates: Facial Hair of the Commanders of the US Civil War
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My understanding is the Deep South is the source of such wise tidbits as "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen" and they had outdoor kitchens for summer cooking to avoid heating the entire house. This tradition continues in some sense in that grilling outdoors is fairly popular in during summer in the South.
I grew up in Georgia, yet I pass out in the heat of Florida. If I were a man in the Deep South, I imagine I would be clean shaven just to try to stay cool.
This is just a really terrible analysis.
/fashion history fan
Confederates, on the other hand, kept things looser, perhaps in deference to a literal reading of Leviticus 19:27? Rebels also had more smooth-shaven faces, which might be explained by several factors. Facial hair became popular in the mid-1850’s, and it’s possible that the traditional South was more resistant to this trend. In addition, Abraham Lincoln was the first US President to have a beard (having, at times, a chin curtain and a goatee), and maybe clean-shavenness was a subtle protest by Confederate commanding officers.
It proposes several political/social/cultural reasons and says nothing about the difference in weather between north and south.
It’s difficult to say exactly why 9 in 10 officers went with facial hair. Perhaps it was an opportunity to distinguish one’s self in an otherwise uniform environment. Perhaps it was an attempt at normalcy during the bloodiest turmoil in American history. Or perhaps there was a running bet among officers on who could grow the craziest facial hair (our vote: Judson Kilpatrick). __Whatever the reasons__, the diversity and abundance of facial hair will remain one of the more prominent postscripts of this War between the States.
The article is about the process they went through to make up a fun comparison of civil war generals and their battles. Drawing a conclusion they do not make and then finding fault in that conclusion is not a fault of the article, but of your own reading.
That strikes me as uncomfortably close to an ad hominem.
When there is nothing left of your culture, know you are responsible. How funny do you think it would be to live in a world with no genuine scholarly journals? This whole "post-human dignity" generational trend is sickening. Mocking literacy itself. If you really can't wait to see what happens after it's all emoji and porn, then visit that very same history you laugh at. Go get high with some gamers dumb ass.
Or he started drinking too early. One or the other.