Burnside
Ambrose Burnside, the Union general, was a major player on the Civil War stage from the first clash at Bull Run until the final summer of the war. He led a corps or army during most of this time and played important roles in various theaters of the war. But until recently, he has been remembered mostly for his distinctive side-whiskers that gave us the term "sideburns" and as an incompetent leader who threw away thousands of lives in the bloody battle of Fredericksburg. This biography focusing on the Civil War years reveals a more capable Burnside who managed to acquit himself credibility as a man and a soldier
Print Book, English, ©1991
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, ©1991