Throughout much of the Civil War, a key Union objective was to penetrate the South and seize the city of Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy. In order to take the city, Union troops had ...

LIBERTY, Ind. – Union County hasn’t always been proud of its Civil War General Ambrose Burnside, but a group of local women say the condition of his family’s gravesite should be improved. Union County ...

Frank Goodyear, associate curator of photography at the National Portrait Gallery discusses an 1861 photograph of Ambrose Burnside and the Rhode Island 1st Volunteer Infantry, taken at Camp Sprague ...

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Little did Ambrose Burnside know back in the mid-1800s that his distinctive facial hair stylings would go on to inspire a generation of hirsute hipsters more than a century later. The patron saint of ...