Let's Get Jiggy with Civil War Dudes!

LET’S GET JIGGY WITH THE 6TH MAINE INFANTRY!

Because the rank and file troops deserve some love, too.  Baths and intensive delousing sessions wouldn’t hurt, either.

LET’S GET JIGGY WITH JAMES WINNING MCMILLAN!

His middle name may have overstated his (quite respectable) record as a Union general, but it more than describes his magnificent chin-mane.

LET’S GET JIGGY WITH CARNOT POSEY!

Mississippi lawyer turned Confederate general who saw action in the Eastern Theater and died a slow lingering death from an infected thigh wound sustained at Bristoe Station.

LET’S GET JIGGY WITH THOMAS ALLCOCK!

British-born industrialist turned breveted Union general who served at the…um…First Battle of Ream’s Station.

LET’S GET JIGGY WITH GEORGE LUCAS HARTSUFF!

Union brigadier from the Empire State who took a severe injury to the hip at Antietam, but did NOT ruin a million over-romanticized childhoods with a trilogy of crappy prequel films.

LET’S GET JIGGY WITH PHILIP ST. GEORGE COCKE!

Son of Virginia whose early accomplishments as a Confederate officer at 1st Bull Run were offset by his erratic mood swings…which ultimately manifested as a fatal self-inflicted gunshot wound at the end of 1861.

LET’S GET JIGGY WITH JOHN PALMER USHER!

Even a Secretary of the Interior can have difficulty getting a suit properly fitted.

LET’S GET JIGGY WITH FRANCIS JAY HERRON!

When one is the youngest major general in the Union Army, one feels a certain obligation to keep up with one’s elders on the facial hair front.

LET’S GET JIGGY WITH MAXCY GREGG!

A well-rounded scholar and ardent secessionist from the Palmetto State.  His distinguished service in the Eastern Theater came to an abrupt end at Fredericksburg, where he took a fatal bullet to the spine.

The fate of his nifty chapeau remains unknown.

LET’S GET JIGGY WITH ERNST MATTIAS PETER VON VEGESACK!

This adventurous Swedish nobleman hopped across the Atlantic to serve a two year stint as an officer in the Union army.  Not my idea of a relaxing vacation, but the Baron did net a Medal of Honor and a promotion to the rank of brigadier general as well-earned souvenirs from his trip.