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 ...

Union troops needed to cross Antietam Creek to flank the Confederate Army. Union Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside had orders to take a stone bridge crossing the creek, even though it meant his forces would ...

At Antietam, Burnside forced his troops into repeated assaults across a narrow bridge dominated by Confederate sharpshooters, when a careful reconnaissance of the area would have revealed several ...