Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Burnside” in chapter 26 of John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History:

... town of Fredericksburg on the lower Rappahannock, but with such delays that General Lee had time to seize and strongly fortify the town and the important adjacent heights on the south bank; and when Burnside 's army crossed on December II, and made its main and direct attack on the formidable and practically impregnable Confederate intrenchments on the thirteenth, a crushing repulse and defeat of the Unio...
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† Ambrose E. Burnside 2,260 54 34 2 0 user votes
Burnside 5,961 0 671 0 0 user votes
A. E. Burnside 3,412 0 44 0 0 user votes
Ambrose Everett Burnside 416 0 16 0 0 user votes
Gen Burnside 155 0 1 0 0 user votes
Ambrose Burnside 71 0 3 0 0 user votes
Ginral Burnside 36 0 0 0 0 user votes
A. B. Burnside 35 0 1 0 0 user votes
Gen Ambrose Everett Burnside 22 0 0 0 0 user votes
A. M. Burnside 14 0 2 0 0 user votes
Ambrose B. Burnside 14 0 2 0 0 user votes
Elijah Burnside 14 0 0 0 0 user votes
Mine Burnside 12 0 0 0 0 user votes
A. F. Burnside 10 0 0 0 0 user votes
Beaufort Burnside 10 0 0 0 0 user votes
J. P. Burnside 10 0 0 0 0 user votes
S. E. Burnside 10 0 0 0 0 user votes
John Burnside 7 0 1 0 0 user votes
J. O. P. Burnside 4 0 0 0 0 user votes
A. Burnside 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
A. S. Burnside 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
Edmund Burnside 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
Gens Burnside 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
Granny Burnside 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
J. Burnside 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
James Burnside 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
A. G. Burnside 1 0 1 0 0 user votes
J. E. Burnside 1 0 1 0 0 user votes
P. Burnside 1 0 1 0 0 user votes

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