Proceedings of the Natural Institute of Science "Beards of War: Relationship between facial hair coverage and battle outcome in the U.S. Civil War" by Matt Michel.
I wrote about this last month (hit the facial hair label).
Using the Facial Hair Database from the previous post/paper and Battle Database from the National Park Service of the 383 battles and classifying the outcome as a Union Victory, Confederate Victory or Inconclusive and the 196 battles which have casualties listed, these stats became evident:
Long Bearded commanders were involved in the most battles: 54 for Union, 108 Confederate
Short Beards: 101 Union, 57 Confederate
Van Dykes: 39 Union, 46 Confederate
Mustaches: 32 Union, 20 Confederate
French Cuts: 20 Union, 31 Confederate
Clean Shaven: 12 Union, 25 Confederate
Friendly Muttonchop: 21 Union, 3 Confederate
Muttonchop: 6 Union, 11 Confederate
Chin Curtain: 11 Union, 3 Confederate
Muttonchop with mustache: 4 Union, 5 Confederate
Goatee: 0 Union, 7 Confederate
--Old Secesh
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