Ambrose Burnside
Also known as: Ambrose E. Burnside · A. E. Burnside · Ambrose Everett Burnside
Ambrose Everts Burnside was an American army officer and politician who became a senior Union general in the American Civil War and a three-time governor of Rhode Island, as well as being an inventor and industrialist.
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Commanded a major wing of the Union forces
As commander of the IX Corps, Burnside was responsible for the delayed but eventually successful crossing of the bridge that bears his name.