When was burnside born

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During the siege of Petersburg, Burnside commanded troops in the battle of the Crater, during which a Union mine dug under Confederate positions was filled with explosives and detonated, creating a fifty yard gap in the Confederate lines.

Burnside failed to exploit the gap in time, which resulted in the loss of Union soldiers. After this failure, Burnside resigned his commission on April 15, After the war, Burnside briefly served as Senator from the state of Rhode Island.

The distinctive facial hair he wore throughout most of his life led to the identification of that form of facial hair by the modern name, sideburns, created from his last name. Civil War Biography. Ambrose E. Title Major General.

Date of Birth - Death May 23, — September 13, Military and government officials in Washington, DC, pressured Burnside to take the offensive in the early winter months of Burnside pursued Lee's army to Fredericksburg, Virginia. While the Union soldiers captured the town, Lee's army fortified the heights overlooking the community. On December 13, , Burnside sent his men against the enemy position. Although the Union soldiers greatly outnumbered the Confederates, the Confederates easily repulsed the Union attack.

It was a complete victory for the Confederacy with the Confederates losing five thousand men to the Union's thirteen thousand casualties. Burnside offered his resignation to President Lincoln, who refused to accept it. Burnside tried to attack the Confederates over the next month, but cold weather, rain, and snow forced him to enter winter encampment. These various attempts to attack the Confederates became known by the Union soldiers as "Mud Marches" and helped alienate the men from their commander.

The general once again offered his resignation, this time from the entire service, but Lincoln again refused. Within a month, Lincoln had made Burnside commander of the Ninth Corps again and dispatched Burnside's command to the Department of the Ohio.

Burnside became the ranking commander in the Department of the Ohio at this time. Upon arriving in Cincinnati, Ohio, Burnside first had to deal with Copperheads living in his district. He issued General Order No. Burnside hoped to intimidate Confederate sympathizers with General Order No. Burnside also declared that, in certain cases, violations of General Order No. Clement Vallandigham, the most well-known Copperhead in the state, helped organize a rally for the Democratic Party at Mount Vernon, Ohio, held on May 1, Vallandigham so opposed the order that he purportedly stated that he "despised it, spit upon it, trampled it under his feet.

Vallandigham went on to chastise President Lincoln for not seeking a peaceable and immediate end to the Civil War and for allowing General Burnside to thwart citizen rights under a free government. In attendance at the Mount Vernon rally were two army officers under Burnside's command. The general ordered the immediate arrest of the Copperhead. On May 5, , a company of soldiers arrested Vallandigham at his home in Dayton and brought the man to Cincinnati to stand trial.

A military tribunal heard the case, and Vallandigham offered no serious defense against the charges, contending that military courts had no jurisdiction over his case. The tribunal found Vallandigham guilty and sentenced him to remain in a United States prison for the remainder of the war. Vallandigham's attorney, George Pugh, appealed the tribunal's decision to Humphrey Leavitt, a judge on the federal circuit court.

Pugh, like his client, claimed that the military court did not have proper jurisdiction in this case and had violated Vallandigham's constitutional rights. Judge Leavitt rejected Vallandigham's argument, agreeing with General Burnside that military authority was necessary during a time of war to ensure that opponents to the United States Constitution, in this case supporters of the Confederacy, would not succeed in overthrowing the Constitution and the rights that it guaranteed United States citizens.

As a result of Leavitt's decision, authorities were to send Vallandigham to federal prison. President Lincoln feared that Peace Democrats across the Union might rise up to prevent Vallandigham's detention. The president commuted Vallandigham's sentence to exile in the Confederacy. On May 25, Burnside sent Vallandigham into Confederate lines. Burnside did not just deal with troublesome civilians as commander of the Department of the Ohio. From the war's beginning, President Lincoln had hoped to free Unionists in eastern Tennessee from Confederate control.

Burnside succeeded in liberating the entire region from Confederate control during the summer of