Major General Mansfield Lovell (Confederate) Lovell was a man who apparently did his best, both duri
Major General Mansfield Lovell (Confederate) Lovell was a man who apparently did his best, both during the war and in terms of growing a sideburns-and-moustache combo. However, in both cases, his best wasn’t nearly good enough. His facial hair shows promise, but is completely trumped by his Union contemporary Ambrose Burnside. If Burnside had been clean-shaven perhaps we’d be talking about ‘lovells’ rather than 'sideburns’ to this day. But he wasn’t, and we aren’t. In battle, Lovell was the Confederate military commander at New Orleans and took the blame for the Union capture of the city in early 1862, a crucial incident that deprived the Confederacy of its largest city for the rest of the war. Historians now suggest it was unfair to pin it all on Lovell, but that’s what the Confederate government did, and his reputation never recovered during his lifetime. -- source link
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