This is an excellent seated view of Burnside in uniform. He wears a double-breasted coat with shoulder straps. His right hand is inside the coat Napolean-style. Very clear image with excellent contrast. Mount remains in excellent, untrimmed condition. Black & Case, Boston b/m.

Ambrose Everts Burnside (May 23, 1824 – September 13, 1881) was an army officer and politician who became a senior Union general in the Civil War and three-time Governor of Rhode Island, as well as being a successful inventor and industrialist. He was responsible for some of the earliest victories in the Eastern theater, but was then promoted above his abilities, and is mainly remembered for two disastrous defeats, at Fredericksburg and the Battle of the Crater. Burnside was a modest and unassuming individual, mindful of his limitations, who had been propelled to high command against his will. He could be described as a genuinely unlucky man, both in battle and in business, where he was robbed of the rights to a successful cavalry firearm that had been his own invention. His spectacular growth of whiskers became known as "sideburns", deriving from the two parts of his surname.

He was buried at Swan Point Cemetery in Bristol, RI.    [jet] [PH:L]

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