Beards and more beards

[EldarKinSlayer]

Beards dont fit in in that era unless you are reenacting a Russian or Jewish rabbi.

I certainly searched and searched for any definitive documentation indicting beards were even slightly common. There isn't any. People just shaved.

Look at paintings of our founding fathers, not one that I recall shows a shadow of a whisker, but look at pics from the War of Northern Aggression, 12 year old drummer boys were sporting spade beards they could tuck into there belts.