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'''Ambrose Everette Burnside''' (1824 - 1881) was a Major General in the United States Army during the [[American Civil War]], and best known for his loss of the [[Battle of Fredricksburg]] in December, 1862, and the disaster of the Crater during the seige of Petersburg in July, 1864.

'''Ambrose Everette Burnside''' (1824 - 1881) was a Major General in the United States Army during the [[American Civil War]], and best known for his loss of the [[Battle of Fredericksburg]] in December, 1862, and the disaster of the Crater during the seige of Petersburg in July, 1864.

==Early life==

==Early life==

===Fredericksburg===

===Fredericksburg===

[[Abraham Lincoln]] removed McClellan from command of the Army of the Potomac due to his general’s ineffectiveness at following and destroying the Confederate forces which left Antietam, and over his protests, ordered Burnside to take over on November 7, 1862.  Disagreement over plans to take Richmond between Burnside, Army Chief Major General Henry Halleck, and Lincoln, caused a delay in Burnside’s crossing of the Rappahannock River, so that Confederate General Robert E. Lee was allowed considerable time to arrange his forces on the heights of Fredericksburg, Virginia.  Burnside’s attack on December 13, mismanaged nearly everywhere, resulted in a disasterous retreat, and a second attempt to go after Lee in January resulted in the derisive “Mud March”.  In a letter to Lincoln, Burnside demanded the resignation of several officers who were openly insubordinate during the march, or he himself would resign; Lincoln rejected the former and accepted the latter, and Burnside was relieved of command, and transferred to Ohio.

Lincoln removed McClellan from command of the Army of the Potomac due to his general’s ineffectiveness at following and destroying the Confederate forces which left Antietam, and over his protests, ordered Burnside to take over on November 7, 1862.  Disagreement over plans to take Richmond between Burnside, Army Chief Major General Henry Halleck, and Lincoln, caused a delay in Burnside’s crossing of the Rappahannock River, so that Confederate General Robert E. Lee was allowed considerable time to arrange his forces on the heights of Fredericksburg, Virginia.  Burnside’s attack on December 13, mismanaged nearly everywhere, resulted in a disasterous retreat, and a second attempt to go after Lee in January resulted in the derisive “Mud March”.  In a letter to Lincoln, Burnside demanded the resignation of several officers who were openly insubordinate during the march, or he himself would resign; Lincoln rejected the former and accepted the latter; Burnside was relieved of command, and transferred to Ohio.

===Minor successes===

===Minor successes===

Here he found some level of success.  He assisted in the crushing of an attempted raid into Ohio by Confederate General John Hunt Morgan in July, 1863.  He arrested agitators against the war and locked them in jails, suspending habeas corpus for the duration of the war, the most famous of which was a Democratic Congressman named Clement Valandigham, whose arrest set off a firestorm in Washington (Lincoln would issue a famous reply in response: ''"must I shoot some simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, and not touch a hair of a wiley agitator who induces him to desert?"'').  He also marched into Knoxville, [[Tennessee]] in September, 1863, and held it against Confederate forces under general James Longstreet, thus aiding Major General [[Ulysses S. Grant|Ulysses S. Grant’s]] success in [[Chattanooga]].

Here he found some level of success.  He assisted in the crushing of an attempted raid into Ohio by Confederate General John Hunt Morgan in July, 1863.  He arrested agitators against the war and locked them in jails, suspending habeas corpus for the duration of the war, the most famous of which was a Democratic Congressman, [[Clement Valandigham]], whose arrest set off a firestorm in Washington (Lincoln would issue a famous reply in response: ''"must I shoot some simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, and not touch a hair of a wiley agitator who induces him to desert?"'').  He also marched into Knoxville, [[Tennessee]] in September, 1863, and held it against Confederate forces under general James Longstreet, thus aiding Major General [[Ulysses S. Grant|Ulysses S. Grant’s]] success in [[Chattanooga]].

===The Crater===

===The Crater===