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Burnside (Paperback, New edition)
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Burnside (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Civil War America
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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 now, 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.
In a biography focusing on the Civil War years, William Marvel
reveals a more capable Burnside who managed to acquit himself
creditably as a man and a soldier. Along the Carolina coast in
1862, Burnside won victories that catapulted him to fame. In that
same year, he commanded a corps at Antietam and the Army of the
Potomac at Fredericksburg. In East Tennessee in the summer and fall
of 1863, he captured Knoxville, thereby fulfilling one of Lincoln's
fondest dreams. Back in Virginia during the spring and summer of
1864, he once again led a corps at the battles of the Wilderness,
Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg. But after the fiasco of
the Crater he was denied another assignment, and he resigned from
the army the day that Lincoln was assassinated.
Marvel challenges the traditional evaluation of Burnside as a nice
man who failed badly as a general. Marvel's extensive research
indicates that Burnside was often the scapegoat of his superiors
and his junior officers and that William B. Franklin deserves a
large share of the blame for the Federal defeat at Fredericksburg.
He suggests that Burnside's Tennessee campaign of 1863 contained
much praiseworthy effort and shows during the Overland campaign
from the Wilderness to Petersburg, and at the battle of the Crater,
Burnside consistently suffered slights from junior officers who
were confident that they could get away with almost any slur
against "Old Burn." Although Burnside's performance included an
occasional lapse, Marvel argues that he deserved far better
treatment than he has received from his peers and subsequently from
historians.
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