Ambrose Burnside

American soldier, railroad executive, inventor, industrialist, and politician from Rhode Island

1824 CE to 1881 CE

Ambrose Everett Burnside (May 23, 1824 – September 13, 1881) was an American soldier, railroad executive, inventor, industrialist, and politician from Rhode Island, serving as governor and a U.S.

Senator.

As a Union Army general in the American Civil War, he conducts successful campaigns in North Carolina and East Tennessee but is defeated in the disastrous Battle of Fredericksburg and Battle of the Crater, earning his reputation as one of the most incompetent generals of the war.

His distinctive style of facial hair is now known as sideburns, derived from his last name.

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