Ambrose Burnside

Ambrose Everett Burnside (1824–1881) was an American railroad executive, inventor, industrialist, and politician from Rhode Island, serving as governor and a U.S. Senator. As a Union Army general in the American Civil War, he conducted successful campaigns in North Carolina and East Tennessee, but was defeated in the disastrous Battle of Fredericksburg and Battle of the Crater. His distinctive style of facial hair is now known as sideburns, derived from his last name.

Ambrose Burnside in Southern Victory
Ambrose Burnside (1824-1881) commanded the IX Corps of the Union Army of the Potomac during the War of Secession. He advised his commanding general, George McClellan, against offering Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia battle at Camp Hill, Pennsylvania in 1862. His advice was ignored, and the Army of the Potomac was destroyed.

Ambrose Burnside in The Guns of the South
Ambrose Burnside was one of several Union generals whose likenesses were used on cardboard cutouts as targets when the Rivington Men demonstrated the AK-47 to Robert E. Lee and his staff.