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The Daily Dispatch: February 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], The New York Herald of the 15th. (search)
eld officer is paraded, biographical sketches of each individual are given, so that even the most searching curiosity is thoroughly satiated. The third page is almost exclusively devoted to the "Naval Section," giving minute descriptions of the officers and of each gunboat and steamer. We subjoin short sketches of some of the "Heroes:" General Ambrose B. Burnside. The Commander-in-Chief of the expedition, Brigadier General Ambrose Everett Burnside, was born at Liberty, in Union county, Indiana, on the 23d of May, 1824, and is consequently now in his thirty-eighth year. In 1842 he entered the West Point Military Academy, and graduated in 1847, with the rank of Second Lieutenant in the Second United States artillery. In September of the same year he was transferred to the Third artillery, and was attached to the rebel General (then captain) Bragg's company, with which he marched in the division of General Patterson to the city of Mexico, and there remained until the