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...here's a great book.
Investigations in the Military and Anthropological Statistics of American Soldiers, published by the US Sanitary Commission, 1869.
It's a collection of all kinds of height, weight and personal statistics from the war, with a few college students and other random stuff, in more detail than I've seen before. It breaks down proportional measurements, state-by-state averages of height, age-related stuff, all kinds of cool things.
For example, people say that height-weight statistics of soldiers may be skewed because so many were younger than reenactors. Well, here are the statistics broken down by age and height, so you can see how many soldiers in the sample, who were your age and height, weighed what you do.
Or what about by state? Here you can look up your age and state, and see the average height of those soldiers (union only, unfortunately, and lumps those 35 and up together).
Want to know what percentage of soldiers were bald at different ages? Here it is.
How about the proportion of soldiers who graduated from high school, or common school, or college, broken down by where they were born? Right here.
Want to know how many pounds a white soldier could lift in good health and poor health, and whether it was more than a black man or a student? Here you go.
All kinds of neat stuff like that, which I've not seen elsewhere.
Hank Trent
hanktrent@gmail.com
Investigations in the Military and Anthropological Statistics of American Soldiers, published by the US Sanitary Commission, 1869.
It's a collection of all kinds of height, weight and personal statistics from the war, with a few college students and other random stuff, in more detail than I've seen before. It breaks down proportional measurements, state-by-state averages of height, age-related stuff, all kinds of cool things.
For example, people say that height-weight statistics of soldiers may be skewed because so many were younger than reenactors. Well, here are the statistics broken down by age and height, so you can see how many soldiers in the sample, who were your age and height, weighed what you do.
Or what about by state? Here you can look up your age and state, and see the average height of those soldiers (union only, unfortunately, and lumps those 35 and up together).
Want to know what percentage of soldiers were bald at different ages? Here it is.
How about the proportion of soldiers who graduated from high school, or common school, or college, broken down by where they were born? Right here.
Want to know how many pounds a white soldier could lift in good health and poor health, and whether it was more than a black man or a student? Here you go.
All kinds of neat stuff like that, which I've not seen elsewhere.
Hank Trent
hanktrent@gmail.com
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