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The Daily Dispatch: December 6, 1862., [Electronic resource], Burnside
Burnside — his Antecedents, &c.
The Richmond correspondent of the Grenada Appeal gives the following account 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 fr