At the Battle of Antietam, Burnside commanded the 13,000-man IX Corps ordered to take the strategic bridge over Antietam Creek, a bridge that bears his name today. The general was late to the ...

On September 17, 1862, during what became known as the Battle of Antietam, Union troops needed to cross Antietam Creek to flank the Confederate Army. Union Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside had orders to ...

At Antietam, Burnside forced his troops into repeated assaults across a narrow bridge dominated by Confederate ... sites out of enemy range. At the Battle of Fredericksburg, Burnside threw away ...