Ambrose Burnside's roller-coaster military career included early Civil War successes, a bloody draw at Antietam, and selection as general of all Union armies, succeeding his friend George McClellan.

Union forces would make an attempt in November of 1863 under the leadership of newly appointed General Ambrose Burnside. Burnside's plan was to cross the river quickly at Fredericksburg ...

Union Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside had orders to take a stone bridge crossing the creek, even though it meant his forces would be wide open to Confederate fire from troops entrenched on high bluffs on ...

Continuing north on Highway 27 you’ll come to Burnside, a roadside community named for General Ambrose Burnside. He was the Union commander that assembled troops on the island there in preparation for ...

Lee’s troops defeats Union General Ambrose Burnside’s soldiers at the battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, during December 11–15, 1862. Illustration published in The New Eclectic History of the United ...

The Union forces in the battle were led by Gen. Ambrose Everett Burnside. In 1907, 16 U.S. Navy battleships, which came to be known as the “Great White Fleet,” set sail on a 14-month ...

They include: -- Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus in 1707 -- Social reformer Sarah Margaret Fuller in 1810 -- U.S. Army Gen. Ambrose Burnside, who later was a U.S. senator and for whom sideburns ...

ranging from industrialist heir David Morse in the hit comedy "Pretty Woman" to Union Civil War general Ambrose P. Burnside in the historical epic "Gods and Generals." The son of British actor ...