BurnsideAmbrose 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. B |
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User Review - KirkusA workmanlike biography of the amiable Union general that unconvincingly argues that Burnside's poor military reputation was largely an undeserved product of vicious military gossip and his own naive ... Read full review
Contents
The River | 1 |
Armd Year Year of the Struggle | 7 |
The Carolina Shore | 41 |
My Maryland | 95 |
Winter of Discontent | 149 |
Chants of Ohio | 217 |
Twice across the Cumberland | 262 |
Again Virginias Summer Sky | 342 |
The Undiscoverd Country | 417 |
Notes | 425 |
Bibliography | 479 |
| 493 | |
Index | 495 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Burnside Civil War America Series, ISSN 2691-2112 |
| Author | William Marvel |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press, 1991 |
| ISBN | 0807819832, 9780807819838 |
| Length | 514 pages |
| Subjects | › Biography & Autobiography / Military |
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