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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing)	738	0	Browse	Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones)	98	0	Browse	Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I.	98	0	Browse	Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition.	78	0	Browse	Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government	72	0	Browse	Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2	72	0	Browse	Search
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition.	54	0	Browse	Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore)	52	0	Browse	Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1.	50	0	Browse	Search
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The Daily Dispatch: December 6, 1862., [Electronic resource], Burnside — his Antecedents, &c. (search)

nt of McClellan's successor: Gen Ambrose Everett Burnside who supplants the "Young Napoleon," is one of the most courteous and well-behaving officers of the Yankee army. He was born in Indiana, and entered the Military Academy of West Point from that State in the year 1843, in the same class with Ambrose P. Hill and Henry Heth, who are now Generals in the Confederate service. Having served some years in the artillery after graduation, he resigned his commission and went to live in Rhode Island, where he had married a woman of wealth and accomplishment. All his own private resources and the greater part of his wife's fortune were spent by him in preparations for the manufacture on a large scale of a new rifle of his own invention upon which there had been a favorable report from an army commission appointed to examine it, and for which he expected a great contract from the Secretary of War. In this he was disappointed. Gen. Floyd, who was then at the head of the War Depar

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