1912 Vintage Illustration Major Generals Army of Potomac Burnside Meade Hooker-image
1912 Vintage Illustration Major Generals Army of Potomac Burnside Meade Hooker-image

1912 Vintage Illustration Major Generals Army of Potomac Burnside Meade Hooker

$ 10.56

Country of Origin: United States

Description

Original illustration removed from The Photographic History of The Civil War published in 1912. Contains 1 page and 3 illustration. Page size approximately 8 inches x 11 inches. Would be great for addition to any vintage print collection. Title page is shown to reference publication. Is not included with illustration. SKU # 19755 Nice article overall. Has some browning, age toning, and dinged corners, but overall very nice for a 100-year-old magazine article. Ambrose Burnside is best known today as the namesake for sideburns, that big-bushy growth of fuzz on the side of your face. However, Burnside took it to the extreme, connecting them to either end of his mustache, then shaved his face clean below the mouth. Burnside graduated from West Point in 1847, then traveled to Veracruz, where he saw service in the Mexican-American War. After that, he fought Apaches in New Mexico. During the 1850s, he left the service and designed his own rifle, the Burnside Carbine. It fired a special .54 caliber cartridge, also designed by Burnside. The weapon saw widespread use during the civil war and was much appreciated by soldiers who could load it from the rear of the gun body rather than having to jam a cartridge and powder into the muzzle. It’s easy to understand why Burnside became a founding member and served as the first president of the NRA. He was appointed a brigadier general of volunteers after the first battle of Bull Run. He commanded three brigades in the North Carolina Expeditionary Force. Later, at Antietam, McClellan ordered him to take stone bridge number 3 and cut off the rebel army outside Sharpsburg. Less than a month after the battle of Antietam, Abraham Lincoln removed George McClellan and appointed Ambrose Burnside as commander of the Army of the Potomac. Burnside insisted he was unfit for command, but Lincoln persisted. In his biography of Ulysses S. Grant , Ron Chernow described Burnside as a “military lightweight” who “was in way over his head.” In an interview conducted after the war, Ulysses S. Grant appeared to concur. He said Burnside was well-liked and respected but unfit to command an army. At best, he should have been made a colonel.

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