Burnside / William Marvel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marvel, William.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Burnside, Ambrose Everett, 1824-1881.

Burnside, Ambrose Everett.

United States. Army--Biography.

United States.

Generals--United States--Biography.

Generals.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 514 p. ) ill., maps ;

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1991.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

The river

Arm'd year : year of the struggle

The Carolina shore

My Maryland

Winter of discontent

Chants of Ohio

Twice across the Cumberland

Again Virginia's summer sky

The undiscover'd country.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [481]-493) and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

9798890886545

9780807866924

080786692X