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AL:
I have just manually tabulated the numbers and while your count of GOs and Union lawyer generals is almost spot on, you appear to have overcounted Confederate generals who were lawyers significantly.
I am only getting 150 of 420, are you sure that you are not counting post-war lawyers as well?
Due to the engineering degrees awarded at that point from the USMA, I would have expected a disproportionate number of engineers by civilian profession.
In poring over the rolls, I was surprised at how many names were familiar to me for both wartime and post-war service.
To do this comparison properly, we would need to look at senior leadership at selected levels for a qualitative review. Unfortunately, the CSA fielded LTGs and GENs well before the Union did, so a relevant analysis would have to consider positional comparisons at the various grades as well. Performance at different battles as well as in administrative functions could be spotty too, so an overall rating system would have to be developed. All in all, an excellent topic for a thesis, but hardly likely to be resolved here.
TR
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