Publication

1991 - University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Language

English

Word Count

128,500 words, Guess

Page Count

514 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL1530973M
  • ISBN-139780807819838
  • ISBN-100807819832
  • OCLC Control Number23179669
  • Library of Congress Control Number91008419
and 2 more
  • Goodreads1760464
  • LibraryThing369021

Classifications

  • DDC973.7/3
  • LCCE467.1.B8 M37 1991
  • DDCB

Description

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. In a biography focusing on the Civil War years, William Marvel reveals a more capable Burnside who managed to acquit himself credibility as a man and a soldier. Marvel challenges the traditional evaluation of Burnside as a nice man who failed badly as a general. - Jacket flap.

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Other Editions

  • BurnsideHardcoverUniversity of North Carolina Press1991-01-01

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