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'''Ambrose Everett Burnside''' ([[May 23]] [[1824]] – [[September 13]] [[1881]]) was a railroad executive, an industrialist, and a politician from [[Rhode Island]], serving as governor and a [[U.S. Senator]]. As a [[Union Army]] [[general]] in the [[American Civil War]], he was defeated in the disastrous [[Battle of Fredericksburg]].
==Early life and career==
Burnside was born in [[Liberty, Indiana]]. He graduated from the [[U.S. Military Academy]], in 1847, and was commissioned a [[second lieutenant]] in the 2nd U.S. Artillery. He accompanied [[Braxton Bragg]]'s Battery throughout the [[Mexican-American War]], and with it entered [[Mexico City]].
At the close of the war Lieutenant Burnside was detailed for duty against the [[Apache]]s in the [[New Mexico Territory]], and served some two years in frontier warfare. In 1849, he was wounded by an arrow in his neck in [[Las Vegas, New Mexico]]. In 1852, he was appointed to the command of Fort Adams, [[Newport, Rhode Island]], and, while there, he married Mary Bishop of [[Providence, Rhode Island]]. In 1853, he resigned his commission in the [[Regular Army]], although maintaining a position in the state militia, and devoted his time and energy to the manufacture of the famous rifle that bears his name, the Burnside [[breech-loading rifle|Breechloading Carbine]]. The [[Secretary of War]] under [[President of the United States|President]] [[James Buchanan]], [[John B. Floyd]], contracted with the Burnside Arms Company to equip a large portion of the army with his carbine, and induced him to establish extensive factories for its manufacture. The works were no sooner complete than another gunmaker bribed Floyd to break his contract with Burnside, who was ruined. He went west in search of employment and became treasurer of the [[Illinois Central Railroad]], where he worked, and became friendly, with his future commanding officer, [[George B. McClellan]]. Politics has to be considered a major factor in Burnside's failure to get the carbine contract. Burnside had run for one of the Congressional seats in Rhode Island in 1858 and was defeated in a landslide.weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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