<\/a>I wish I had found this article before my book was published<\/a>. I was going through The Quiner Papers<\/a> on my iPad and while looking through Vol. 2 I found a newspaper clipping that was apparently misplaced under the 8th Wisconsin Regiment. Anyway, the article was a breakdown of the data offered in the regiment’s “descriptive books,” which I have and broke down some of this data myself. Here’s what this Janesville Newspaper article came up with:<\/p>\n

The Average weight of the regiment while at Camp Randall in 1861: 151 pounds. The heaviest being Company A at 157LBS.<\/p>\n

The Average height: 5’8 1\/2″. The tallest being Company B at 5′ 9 1\/2″<\/p>\n

The tallest man at 6’6″ tall and I meed to find out who that is I’m pretty sure I have it written down somewhere.<\/p>\n

603 men listed themselves as “farmers” out of 1038, or 58%.<\/p>\n

Another interesting piece of data, the Quartermaster at Camp Randall reported that during the previous 4 months he has but one soldier who could not read.<\/p>\n

Anyway, that’s it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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