Source of generals' surnames in GCM

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Source of generals' surnames in GCM

Post by Blaugrana »

Hi Garnier,

Where did you get the surnames for the generals from? Are they real generals?
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I got a bunch of regimental rosters from the civil war collected all the names from them. There were tens of thousands on each side, but a lot were duplicates of course.

They're almost all from Virginia, Alabama, Pennsylvania and Indiana regiments.
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The only thing I noticed for sure is that you got abbreviations in for some first names, like "Thos" for Thomas. I can't remember any of the others offhand, but there were only a couple. Wm for William is the only other one I can think of but I don't think you had it in the list.

Still, not a big deal and a heck of a list to choose from for those that actually care enough to name their commander. The rest of you can just randomize and forget it - literally. :silly:
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Yeah there are a lot of abbreviations and misspellings in there. I did remove all the first names that were only listed once, because almost all of them were misspellings. But a lot of them could be removed for sure.
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Post by Blaugrana »

Thanks Garnier.

I asked as my surname is Humm, which is not common (at least in the UK) and you had Humm as an available surname! I was very pleased.

If the originals came from regimental rosters they could be any rank?
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Yeah they would be any rank.
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Post by SouthernSteel »

Yeah there are a lot of abbreviations and misspellings in there. I did remove all the first names that were only listed once, because almost all of them were misspellings. But a lot of them could be removed for sure.
Not a problem, merely an observation. I think the cleanup you did already works quite nicely. Besides, as I said, most of these slackers don't even know their own names :pinch:
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