{"value"=>"<p>Physical descriptions materials consist of collected data (rough sheets) and tabulations (final summaries) documenting the USSC’s ongoing investigations into the physiological characteristics of U.S. soldiers, such as their complexion and the color of their hair and eyes. Also present are tabular descriptions of men of the 1st Connecticut Artillery stationed near Fort Richardson.</p> <p>Rough sheets are the loose paper sheets on which Statistical Bureau clerks transcribed the number of cases of each age, complexion, eye color, hair color, height, nativity, occupation, and weight of soldiers, as taken from muster rolls. Final tables are the printed forms on which the collected descriptions were tabulated. According to the paper wrappers enclosing the “original rough sheets from which final summaries were made,” the data was “collected at Washington in 1864-5.” Tabulation of such data continued through 1866. Dates of the original data collected were not recorded.</p> <p>Interest in this type of data began during the Elliott administration of the Bureau, as seen in Height, Age and Nativity records, and Physical Examinations. According to Gould’s Investigations, p. 185, statistical clerks stationed at state capitals (in 1865 and 1866) collected and tabulated similar data in regard to complexion, hair and eye color from state muster rolls.</p> <p>Rough sheets and final summaries are both arranged by state of enlistment.</p>"}