Stock Photo - GENERAL BURNSIDE, He was an American soldier, railroad executive, inventor, industrialist, and politician from Rhode Island, serving as governor and a U.S. Senator. As a Union Army general in the American Civil War, he conducted successful campaigns in North Carolina and East Tennessee but was defeated in the disastrous Battle of Fredericksburg and Battle of the Crater, which contributed to his being considered one of the most incompetent generals of the Civil War, US, USA, 1870s engraving

Stock Photo: GENERAL BURNSIDE, He was an American soldier, railroad executive, inventor, industrialist, and politician from Rhode Island, serving as governor and a U.

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