Oddly enough, two of the best-known Union generals apparently never met during the Civil War. But Gens. Ambrose Everett Burnside and Philip Henry Sheridan crossed paths on a European battlefield ...

1824–81 Indiana General, Governor, and U.S. Senator. Ambrose Burnside's roller-coaster military career included early Civil War successes, a bloody draw at Antietam, and selection as general of ...

Dispatch from Gen. Burnside to the War Department. Share full article. May 5, 1862. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from May 5, 1862, Page 8 Buy ...

During the war there were approximately 400 Southern Generals and more than 500 for the Union. At least Burnside was well trained, but that didn’t mean he was smart.

In this episode of Kings and Generals’ Civil War series, we delve into the catastrophic Union defeat at the Battle of Fredericksburg. General Burnside’s relentless assaults against Confederate ...

LINCOLN AND HIS GENERALS (363 pp.)—T. Harry Williams—Knopf ($4).The Civil War had not been going very long when Abraham Lincoln discovered that the North's top generals had a perverse ...

Burnside committed seven divisions to the assault, ordering individual brigades of 3,000 to 4,000 men, up the hill one at a time. Wave after wave were cut down. In one hour the Union lost 3,000 ...