For #MemorialDay2020 I'm sharing some of the ways the US Army described drunkenness during the Civil War. Which is your favorite?

- beastly drunk
- beastly intoxicated
- boisterous drunk
- continually drunk
- crazy drunk
- cross-crabbed drunk
- dangerous drunk

1/n #beerhistory

- didn't walk drunk, but looked drunk
- drinking but not drunk
- drunk and disorderly
- drunk but able to walk erect
- drunk but could stand
- drunk but not too drunk to be a sentinel
- excited drunk
- falling down drunk
- habitually drunk

2/n #beerhistory #MemorialDay2020

- grossly intoxicated but not out of his senses
- half drunk
- harmless drunk
- helpless drunk
- in liquor
- in liquor but not drunk
- insensibly drunk
- intoxicated but not drunk (...?)
- jovial drunk
- just plain drunk
- little bit drunk

3/n #beerhistory #MemorialDay2020

- not able to navigate drunk
- not drunk--only drinking beer
- not drunk but smelled very strongly of liquor
- not drunk but under the influence
- not exactly sober
- not proven to be absolutely drunk
- not sober, but not what I would call drunk

4/n #beerhistory #MemorialDay2020

- not staggering drunk but too drunk to issue commands
- not sufficiently under the influence as to be incapable of doing his duty.
- not too drunk to operate (surgically)
- on a frolic
- on a spree
- only partially drunk
- raving drunk

5/n #beerhistory #MemorialDay2020

- really, really drunk
- serious drunk
- slightly drunk
- staggering and reeling drunk
- staggering drunk
- stupid drunk
- suffering the effects of ardent spirits, but not drunk
- tight
- tipsy
- too drunk to do his duty
- unable to stand drunk

6/n #beerhistory #MemorialDay2020

And, my personal favorite

"I was not drunk so many times as I am charged!" ~ a spunky Ohio private in June 1863

All others, credit to Thomas Lowry's research.