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Model Company – An Uncommon Look at the Common Civil War Soldier
- meredithmmyers 11y agoThanks for sharing this. Just a note that the project (including visualizations) is open source: https://github.com/meredithmmyers/model-company https://github.com/meredithmmyers/model-company
- ljsocal 11y agothis is great! Thanks!
- georgeecollins 11y agoIt is strange to think of blue eyes to be the most common eye color for Union Soldiers. Now that seems less common for Americans. Perhaps that is due to where the Union Soldiers were coming from demographicaly.
- meredithmmyers 11y agoProbably. Coming from central PA during that era (and still, actually), a lot of these guys would've been of German and Irish descent.
- walshemj 11y agoThe close proximity of recruits reminds me of the Pals battalions in ww1