When rain stopped an army: The Mud March of 1863.

On Jan. 20, 1863, Union Gen. Ambrose Burnside’s winter offensive collapsed into the infamous Mud March as heavy rain and deep ...
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The Battle of Fredericksburg

Throughout much of the Civil War, a key Union objective was to penetrate the South and seize the city of Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy. In order to take the city, Union troops had ...
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Ambrose Everett Burnside

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The short, unhappy life of my great-grandfather Patrick O’Hanlon

Four weeks after his Army of the Potomac absorbed a staggering 13,000 casualties at the Battle of Fredricksburg, General Ambrose Burnside surmised that more combat was the tonic that would improve the ...
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Ambrose Everett Burnside

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Frederick Hill Meserve Collection comprises more than five thousand Civil War-era portrait negatives from the ...