In the photos of the war, most folks look unattractively dressed. The men’s clothes are baggy and too hot, while the women’s clothes look terrible and seem like torture to wear. The French inspired uniforms are either too fussy or shabby.
Napoleon IIIhttps://imgs.search.brave.com/wF7IKldLx_5DCS07PO9szZ9Sqe6dq04SZZ0f3BOlj1s/rs:fit:500:0:0/g:ce/aHR0cHM6Ly9saDMu/Z29vZ2xldXNlcmNv/bnRlbnQuY29tL2Np/L0FMMThnX1FOc1ZC/b2xtUjlkSkNYQmtt/T1ZjMXhKanRkWWpP/cy1XVERXNzJRWTht/T1NrZWtTX2ZSd1Q2/Ym0xVE9IbDh0Vkxi/ejY2WVMzdw.jpeg
I’d never met her, so easily I could be wrong (not the first time today,) but I suspect Meg Groeling would say, “Colonel Elmer Ellsworth.”
It’s a fun question, one I’m only skin deep on. I think that, Little Mac, photographed with his Napoleonic pose, and in starched uniform, who felt that he was smarter than the “well meaning baboon” president, and thus having an ego of Napoleonic proportion, would have been dressed to impress at all times. But in terms of fancy accessories, US Grant’s three stars was all it takes for me.
Agreed with the post on Lee, he came first to my mind but you cleanly beat me to it. Everyone who described Lee said he was the image of a general.
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In the photos of the war, most folks look unattractively dressed. The men’s clothes are baggy and too hot, while the women’s clothes look terrible and seem like torture to wear. The French inspired uniforms are either too fussy or shabby.
Jeb Stuart
Is there any doubt? Robert E. Lee on his “I’m surrendering, but I have style” day!
I would definitely agree its Lee.
Assuming that he continued to dress the part of his nickname in his old age, “Old Fuss & Feathers” Winfield Scott.
George Armstrong Custer of course … both uniforms and the hair-do!
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Napoleon III
https://imgs.search.brave.com/wF7IKldLx_5DCS07PO9szZ9Sqe6dq04SZZ0f3BOlj1s/rs:fit:500:0:0/g:ce/aHR0cHM6Ly9saDMu/Z29vZ2xldXNlcmNv/bnRlbnQuY29tL2Np/L0FMMThnX1FOc1ZC/b2xtUjlkSkNYQmtt/T1ZjMXhKanRkWWpP/cy1XVERXNzJRWTht/T1NrZWtTX2ZSd1Q2/Ym0xVE9IbDh0Vkxi/ejY2WVMzdw.jpeg
As an amendment, if we’re talking unit uniforms, I love the 5th NY Zouaves!
Hetty Carey. What a babe.
Nathaniel Banks.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/Nathaniel_Prentice_Banks_-_Southworth_and_Hawes.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/GenNPBanks.jpg
https://www.americanhistorycentral.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/banks-nathaniel-portrait-1.jpg
I’d never met her, so easily I could be wrong (not the first time today,) but I suspect Meg Groeling would say, “Colonel Elmer Ellsworth.”
It’s a fun question, one I’m only skin deep on. I think that, Little Mac, photographed with his Napoleonic pose, and in starched uniform, who felt that he was smarter than the “well meaning baboon” president, and thus having an ego of Napoleonic proportion, would have been dressed to impress at all times. But in terms of fancy accessories, US Grant’s three stars was all it takes for me.
Agreed with the post on Lee, he came first to my mind but you cleanly beat me to it. Everyone who described Lee said he was the image of a general.
Here’s a vote for Mary Todd Lincoln. She dismayed her husband with her extravagant spending, but apparently had style. See e.g., https://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?id=NMAH-2008-9506-000002&max=600.
Lt Samuel Dana Greene, USN