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	Ambrose Burnside
		Ambrose, the fourth of nine children, was born in a rude log cabin at the edge of the wilderness.
		Burnside commanded a brigade on the extreme right of Hunter's division, which was detached from the main army early in the morning, and sent across an upper ford to turn the confederate left.
		Burnside relinquished the command of the department of North Carolina, and, with his old divisions reorganized as the 9th corps, was transferred to the army of the Potomac, which held the north shore of the Rappahannock opposite Fredericksburg.
	www.abraham-lincoln.org /ambroseburnside.com (3175 words)

	Ambrose Burnside - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ambrose Everett Burnside (May 23, 1824 – September 13, 1881) was a railroad executive, an industrialist, and a politician from Rhode Island, serving as governor and a U.S. Senator.
		Burnside was then ordered to take the IX Corps back to Virginia, where he fought in the Overland Campaign directly under Grant; his corps was not assigned initially to the Army of the Potomac because he outranked its commander, Major General George G. Meade, who had been a division commander under Burnside at Fredericksburg.
		Burnside was noted for his unusual facial hair, joining strips of hair in front of his ears to his mustache, but with chin clean-shaven; the word burnsides was coined to describe this style.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ambrose_E._Burnside (1664 words)

	General Ambrose E. Burnside biography
		Burnside’s pristine reputation as a military commander began to erode at the Battle of Antietam in September 1862.
		Burnside repeatedly threw his men against the narrow bridge in the face of deadly Confederate fire, in spite of the fact that Antietam Creek could have been forded nearby in any number of places.
		Burnside, always the innovator, liked the idea and promised to present it to his superior, General George Meade.
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	Mr. Lincoln's White House: Ambrose E. Burnside (1824-1881)
		Burnside's slow arrival at Antietam turned a potential Union victory into a draw; nevertheless, he was appointed to head the army after McClellan failed vigorously to pursue the Confederates.
		Burnside was a loyal and well-meaning, but ill-starred general, whose every move seemed to be thwarted by circumstance.
		Burnside was Governor of Rhode Island (1866-68) and a Senator (1875-81).
	www.mrlincolnswhitehouse.org /inside.asp?ID=130&subjectID=2 (597 words)

	Ambrose E. Burnside (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Ambrose Burnside was a West Pointer who seved 6 years in the artilery, including Mexico.
		During Antietam, Burnsides two corps, the 1st and the 9th were placed on opposite ends of the battle line, leading to confusion.
		Burnside was then moved to the Department of Ohio in which he mostly dealt with raiders.
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	Ambrose Everett Burnside - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		AMBROSE EVERETT BURNSIDE (1824-1881), American soldier, was born at Liberty, Indiana, on the 23rd of May 1824, of Scottish pedigree, his American ancestors settling first in South Carolina, and next in the north-west wilderness, where his parents lived in a rude log cabin.
		He was appointed to the United States military academy through casual favour, and graduated in 1847, when war with Mexico was nearly over.
		Part of his forces fought in the last battles of Pope's campaign in Virginia, and Burnside himself was engaged in the battles of South Mountain and Antietam.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Ambrose_Everett_Burnside (554 words)

	General Ambrose Burnside (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Major-General Ambrose Everitt Burnside was born of Scotch parents, at Liberty, Union county, Indiana, on 23d May, 1821, and is consequently in his thirty-ninth year.
		General Burnside, as his portrait shows, is a very handsome man. Tall and stout, with a flashing eye and a sonorous voice, the looks the very beau-ideal of a soldier.
		Burnside, reluctant to part with him so soon, urged him to remain a little longer—the interest of the country demanded that he should.
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	Ambrose Bunside, 1824-1881 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Burnside was assigned to the artillery branch and served in the Mexican War, although mostly on garrison duty in Mexico City.
		Burnside was replaced by Joseph Hooker and sent west to command the Army and Department of the Ohio.
		Perhaps his most enduring legacy is the "Burnside Bridge" on the battlefield at Antietam, Maryland, and his widely-imitated facial whiskers referred to as "sideburns." Ambrose Burnside died on September 13, 1881, at Bristol, Rhode Island, and was buried in Swan Point Cemetery in Providence.
	www.indianainthecivilwar.com /hoosier/burnside.htm (508 words)

	Major General Ambrose E. Burnside of the Union Army
		Burnside was given command of the “Right Wing” of the Army of the Potomac (the I and IX Corps) during the Maryland Campaign.
		Lincoln was unwilling to lose Burnside from the army and assigned him to command the Department of the Ohio and the IX Corps.
		Burnside was then ordered to take the IX Corps back to Virginia, where he fought in the Overland Campaign directly under Grant; his corps was not assigned initially to the Army of the Potomac because he outranked its commander, Maj. Gen.
	www.mycivilwar.com /leaders/burnside_ambrose.htm (1323 words)

	General Ambrose E. Burnside (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Burnside's reputation as a military commander began to erode at the Battle of Atietam in September 1862.
		With the Army of Nothern Virginia Robert E. Lee was invading Maryland.
		Burnside threw his men repeatedly against the narrow bridge in spite of the fact that Atietam Creek could have forded nearby in a number of places.
	www.expage.com /civilwarburnside (502 words)

	Ambrose Everett Burnside (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Burnside's generalship was poor at the September 1862 Battle of Sharpsburg, Md., where a bridge his men crossed now bears his name, but even still his ability was much superior to the generalship of McClellan, the army commander.
		This time Burnside reluctantly accepted, but told his fellow generals "that he knew he was not fit for so big a command." In the next month's Battle of Fredericksburg, where his men were slaughtered in the attacks on Marye's Heights, Burnside proved that he had been a competent judge of his own capabilities.
		After the disastrous, humiliating January 1863 "Mud March," the army was taken from Burnside and he was assigned to the command of the Department of the Ohio.
	www.us-civilwar.com /burnside.htm (452 words)

	Ambrose Everett Burnside (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Ambrose Burnside generally knew his limits, but despite that was promoted beyond his capability.
		Burnside was in charge of the North Carolina expedition, and grabbed (against light opposition) bases on Roanoke Island, and the port of New Bern.
		Burnside, the professional soldier, saw a bridge and apparently assumed the creek was to deep to ford.
	ehistory.osu.edu /uscw/features/people/bio.cfm?PID=15 (786 words)

	Ambrose E. Burnside, U.S.A.
		General Burnside was then placed in command of the Department of North Carolina, and was engaged in the battle and capture of Roanoke Island; attack of New Berne, North Carolina; attack on Camden and bombardment of Fort Macon, resulting in its capture April 26, 1862.
		He was appointed major-general of volunteers March 18, 1862, and from July 6 to September 4, 1862, he was in command of the reinforcements to the Army of the Potomac, concentrated at Newport News, Virginia, and subsequently at Fredericksburg, constituting the Ninth Army Corps.
		General Burnside participated in the Maryland campaign, in command of the right wing of the Army of the Potomac, and of the Ninth Corps, and was engaged in the battles of South Mountain and Antietam.
	www.all-biographies.com /soldiers/ambrose_e_burnside.htm (809 words)

	General Ambrose Burnside's Report of the Knoxville Campaign
		Ambrose Burnside commanded the defending Federal forces in the vicinity.
		Ambrose E. Burnside, and the officers and men who fought under his command.
		Ambrose E. Burnside, and through him to the officers and men who have fought under his command, for their gallantry, good conduct, and soldierlike endurance.
	www.swcivilwar.com /BurnsideReportKnoxville.html (4450 words)

	Ambrose Burnside
		Ambrose E. Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac, relieving George B. McClellan
		General Ambrose Burnside and the Army of the Potomac is soundly beaten by Lee's Army of North Virgina.
		Ambrose Burnsides orders the Chicago Times to close because of the paper's anti-Lincoln rhetoric.
	blueandgraytrail.com /event/Ambrose_Burnside (225 words)

	Major General Ambrose Everett Burnside, Rhode Island's Own, Part One: Biography
		Burnside and his units actually fired the first shots to open the historic battle and were among the last off the field in good order when it ended.
		Burnside was ordered to set up garrison defenses in the territories he captured in North Carolina and return to Washington with the 9th Corps to rejoin the Army of the Potomac, which was in hot pursuit of Robert E. Lee's Rebel forces invading Maryland.
		As Burnside pushed to keep up the fight and urge his men on, the Generals who originally pressed for the attack lost confidence in the affair and began to openly defy Burnside in the heat of battle; causing a break-down in the chain of command.
	www.geocities.com /amierka/burnside.html (12913 words)

	Fredericksburg.com - Civil War - Personalities - Burnside
		Burnside and his subordinates had performed well in achieving the victory, which boosted Union morale still suffering from defeats the previous summer.
		Burnside had captured a deepwater port for use in blockading this section of the Atlantic Coast and for operations against Wilmington, an important seaport.
		Burnside had dealt with ocean storms, swamps and terrain problems and outgeneraled his opponents in establishing a substantial foothold on the North Carolina coast.
	www.fredericksburg.com /CivilWar/Personalities/burnside.html (1271 words)

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		Burnside succeeded in recapturing Fort Macon on April 25, 1862, the victory capped the most successful campaign of the Union Army thus far in the Civil War.
		Ambrose Burnside not only inherited the Army of The Potomac, but with it he also inherited all of McClellan's very loyal, and bitter, subordinate commanders.
		When Burnside finally launched the attack, the Confederate position was almost impregnable, but he counted on General Franklin to use his Grand Division to roll up Lee's right flank while Burnside's main body attacked the entrenched center of Lee's forces defending the high ground.
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	Ambrose Burnside
		Burnside took part in the battle at Antietam (September, 1862) and afterwards President Abraham Lincoln asked him to replace George McClellan as commander of the Army of the Potomac.
		Ambrose Burnside wanted to renew the attack the following morning but was talked out of it by his commanders.
		Burnside was put in charge of the Army of Ohio in March, 1863 and succeeded in capturing Morgan's Raiders and performed well at the siege of Knoxville.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USACWburnside.htm (1100 words)

	Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Virginia
		Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside inherited the Army of the Potomac on November 7, 1862.
		Burnside used tentative, ambiguous language in his directives, reflecting either a lack of confidence in his plan or a misunderstanding of his opponent's posture -- perhaps both.
		Burnside had reinforced Franklin's sector on the morning of battle to a strenght of some 60,000 men.
	americancivilwar.com /statepic/va/fredricksburg/fredhist_new.htm (2764 words)

	Ambrose E. Burnside
		Burnside was born in Liberty Maryland on May 23rd, 1824, and graduated from West Point in 1847, and later headed an arms manufacturing company.
		After the Civil War began, Burnside inexpertly commanded a brigade at the First Battle of Bull Run in August of 1861.
		Burnside was able to hold Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1863, but terminated his wartime service by undistinguished leadership of the IX Corps under General Ulysses Grant in 1864.
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		Ambrose Burnside was born in Liberty on 23rd May, 1824.
		McPherson seems to regard Ambrose Burnside as brave, loyal to a fault, but utterly incompetent; likewise John Bell Hood is brave and...
		Ambrose E. Burnside was either insane or stupid, based upon his repeated attacks upon the stone wall during the Battle of Fredericksburg in...
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	Hendershott Museum Consultants Product Detail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		General Ambrose E. Burnside - Partially printed document signed “A.E. Burnside” as president of the “Indianapolis and Vincennes Railroad Company - State of Indiana” on a 1pg oblong certificate dated New York, January 8, 1869.
		General Burnside had a roller coaster career in the Union army as he at times won the admiration of President Lincoln as in the Battle of Bull Run and later won the ire of the Union as a whole after losing decidedly to Robert E. Lee’s troops at Fredericksburg.
		After the the debacle at Petersburg, Burnside was relieved of command and spent the rest of the War in various positions as subordinate to other commanders.
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	Ambrose E. Burnside by Manchester and Brother Studio
		Burnside and the 1st Rhode Island Volunteers, 1861
		At the start of the Civil War, Ambrose Burnside, a West Point graduate, was given command of the 1st Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry, which he led in the First Battle of Bull Run.
		He became a favorite of President Lincoln, was given charge of an expedition against Confederates along the North Carolina coast, and with its success, rose to major general of volunteers.
	www.civilwar.si.edu /leaders_burnside.html (175 words)

	Ambrose Everett Burnside Biography
		If there is any mitigating circumstance in the failure of Ambrose E.Burnside as commander of the Army of the Potomac it is that he had twice previously refused the post, recognizing his own inexperience, and only accepted at the urging of others who said he had to obey the assignment order.
		Upset by the failure of his plan, Burnside declared that he himself would lead an assault by his old corps.
		Taking his freshly recruited 9th Corps back to Virginia, he fought directly under Grant-instead of being assigned to the Army of the Potomac because Meade was his junior during the early part of the Overland Campaign.
	www.7cs.com /cw/burnside.htm (701 words)

	Ambrose Burnside
		Until now, Ambrose Burnside has been remembered mostly for his distinctive side-whiskers and as an incompetent leader who threw away thousands of lives in the bloody battle of Fredericksburg.
		In this decorative artwork, a battle map, a BandW photo of General Ambrose E. Burnside, and a period sketch by Civil War artist Edwin Forbes accompany a full-color panoramic photograph of Burnside Bridge as it appears today.
		General Ambrose Burnside continued his expedition into Roanoke Island in 1862, causing great upheaval and dissonance to the simple lives of the islanders.
	www.jennie-wade-house.com /ambrose-burnside.htm (716 words)

	Lincoln and His Generals
		Ambrose E. Burnside replaced McClellan but did not want the position.
		Burnside became overwhelmed with the responsibilities of the command and he took the full blame for the disaster at Fredericksburg.
		John A. McClernand was to lead an army offensive on Vicksburg but was too slow in getting there and Grant beat him to it and received all the credit.
	www.umary.edu /faculty/jlbrud/HIS271/Webographies/Lincoln'sGenerals.htm (1185 words)

	Antietam on the Web :: Overview
		Southeast of town, Union General Ambrose E. Burnside's troops had been trying to cross a bridge over Antietam Creek since 9:30 am.
		At 1 pm the Federals finally crossed the bridge (now known as Burnside Bridge) and, after a 2-hour delay to reform their lines, advanced up the slope beyond.
		Burnside's troops were driven back to the heights near the bridge they had earlier taken.
	aotw.org /overview.php (589 words)

	Lowcountry NOW: Local News - Richard Rowland Kirkland - Angel of Marye's Heights 06/30/03
		Ambrose E. Burnside issued orders to the Army of the Potomac that would lead to one of the greatest military disasters of the Civil War.
		Two days later Burnside launched an assault on the forces of Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, which were arrayed along a series of hills known as Marye's Heights.
		Division after division of Burnside's men advanced on the stone wall only to be stopped before reaching their objective.
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	Tennessee Civil War Battle Campbell's Station American Civil War
		Following parallel routes, Longstreet and Burnside raced for Campbell's Station, a hamlet where the Concord Road, from the south, intersected the Kingston Road to Knoxville.
		Burnside hoped to reach the crossroads first and continue on to safety in Knoxville; Longstreet planned to reach the crossroads and hold it, which would prevent Burnside from gaining Knoxville and force him to fight outside his earthworks.
		Burnside ordered his two divisions astride the Kingston Road to withdraw three-quarters of a mile to a ridge in their rear.
	americancivilwar.com /statepic/tn/tn023.html (857 words)

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