Now that beards are making their comeback, it's a great time to look back to the past, back to the days when a real beard was a real beard, and a moustache attained a level of amazingness that can only be dreamed of today. Learn from the beard masters of the past - the Civil War generals and the hirsute gentlemen of the day - who wore their burnsides, sideburns, full beards, mutton chops, walrus mustaches, handlebars, whiskers, and imperials with some crazy manly man pride. A little Civil War history is sprinkled in along the way, but mostly it's a facial hair extravaganza for any pogonotrophy nut. Enjoy!

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