As a result, Lincoln replaced Buell with William Rosecrans ; and, after the 1862 midterm elections, he replaced McClellan with Republican Ambrose Burnside.

* 1862 – American Civil War: At the Battle of Fredericksburg, Confederate General Robert E. Lee defeats the Union Major General Ambrose E. Burnside.

* 1863 – American Civil War: General Ambrose Burnside is relieved of command of the Army of the Potomac after the disastrous Fredericksburg campaign.

* 1824 – Ambrose Burnside, American general ( d. 1881 )

* 1862 – American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac, after George B. McClellan is removed.

* The Burnside carbine: Invented by future general Ambrose Burnside in 1857, this percussion-cap carbine became the third-most common cavalry breechloader in the Civil War after the Sharps and Spencer.

* November 16 – American Civil War – Battle of Campbell's Station: Near Knoxville, Tennessee, Confederate troops led by General James Longstreet unsuccessfully attack Union forces under General Ambrose Burnside.

* November 14 – American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln approves the plan by General Ambrose Burnside to capture the Confederate capital city of Richmond, Virginia.

* May 23 – Ambrose Burnside, American Civil War general ( d. 1881 )

Subsequently, Sherman led a column to relieve Union forces under Ambrose Burnside thought to be in peril at Knoxville.

In December 1862, Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside commanded the Army of the Potomac and attempted to reach Richmond by way of Fredericksburg, Virginia, where he was defeated at the Battle of Fredericksburg.

Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside decided to conduct a mass purge of the Army of the Potomac's leadership, eliminating a number of generals who he felt were responsible for the disaster at Fredericksburg.

The Battle of Fredericksburg was fought December 11 – 15, 1862, in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia, between General Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside.

McClellan's replacement was Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside, the commander of the IX Corps.

* IX Corps, under Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside, including the divisions of Brig.

Supporting attacks by Warren and by Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside were unsuccessful.

* IX Corps, under Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside, including the divisions of Brig.

Longstreet accepted Bragg's arguments and agreed to a plan in which he and his men were dispatched to East Tennessee to deal with an advance by Union Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside.

James Longstreet in later life, affecting the sideburns of his Ambrose Burnside | opponent at Battle of Fredericksburg | Fredericksburg and Knoxville, Tennessee | Knoxville.

General Ambrose Burnside ( a former Rhode Island gunsmith ) lamented of his Civil War recruits: " Out of ten soldiers who are perfect in drill and the manual of arms, only one knows the purpose of the sights on his gun or can hit the broad side of a barn.

The Battle of Roanoke Island ( February 7 – 8, 1862 ) was an incident in the Union North Carolina Expedition of January to July 1862, when Brigadier General Ambrose E. Burnside landed an amphibious force and took Confederate forts on the island.

General Ambrose Burnside suppressed the paper in 1863 because of its hostility to the Union cause, but Lincoln lifted the ban when he received word of it.

Union County is the birthplace of Thomas Warren Bennett, Mary Alice Smith ( Little Orphan Annie ), Cincinnatus Hiner " Joaquin " Miller, Jay Hall Connaway, Major General Frederick Leroy Martin and Ambrose Burnside.

In the afternoon, Union Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside's corps entered the action, capturing a stone bridge over Antietam Creek and advancing against the Confederate right.

In 1866, the township and post office were renamed to honor American Civil War Union General Ambrose Burnside.

On March 11, Brigadier General Ambrose Burnside's command embarked from Roanoke Island to rendezvous with Union gunboats at Hatteras Inlet for an expedition against New Bern.

On December 24, 1863, at the height of the American Civil War, a skirmish occurred at Dandridge as Confederate General James Longstreet and Union General Ambrose Burnside struggled for control of Knoxville.

The approach of Union forces under Ambrose Burnside in the Summer of 1863, however, forced Buckner to evacuate Knoxville before the earthworks were completed.

Union supporters in Sevier County were harassed and threatened throughout the war, even after Union forces under Ambrose Burnside occupied Knoxville in September 1863.

Union General Ambrose Burnside, 1862.

He was also concerned about a sizable Union force under Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside that was threatening Knoxville.

During the Siege of Petersburg of 1864 – 65, Hill and his men participated in several battles during the various Union offensives: during the Crater, he fought against his West Point classmate Ambrose Burnside, whom the former repulsed at Antietam and Fredericksburg.

* Ambrose Burnside, railroad executive, US senator, 30th governor of Rhode Island, and Union Army general ; lived and died in Bristol

The Iowa Conference dates back to December 8, 1922, when representatives from 12 colleges got together and formed the “ Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Association .” Charter members were Buena Vista College, Central University of Iowa, Ellsworth College, Iowa Wesleyan College, Luther College, Morningside College, Parsons College, St. Ambrose College, Simpson College, Upper Iowa College, Western Union College and Penn College.

In November 1863, Brownlow returned to Knoxville after its occupation by Union General Ambrose Burnside and resumed publishing his newspaper under the new name of the " Knoxville Whig and Rebel Ventilator ".

He returned to Knoxville on the heels of the Union general Ambrose Burnside's invading army in September 1863, and revived the Whig under the title, Knoxville Whig, and Rebel Ventilator.

After General Ambrose E. Burnside issued General Order Number 38, warning that the " habit of declaring sympathies for the enemy " would not be tolerated in the Military District of Ohio, Vallandigham gave a major speech on May 1, 1863, charging that the war was being fought not to save the Union but to free the slaves by sacrificing the liberty of all Americans to " King Lincoln.

Many circumstances in the history of Ambrose are characteristic of the general spirit of the times.

** Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick, English general ( d. 1590 )

* February 21 – Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick, English nobleman and general ( b. 1528 )

For some years Gratian governed the Empire with energy and success but gradually sank into indolence, occupying himself chiefly with the pleasures of the chase, and became a tool in the hands of the Frankish general Merobaudes and bishop St. Ambrose of Milan.

Valentinian wrote to Theodosius and Ambrose complaining of his subordination to his general.

The term sideburns is a 19th-century corruption of the original burnsides, named after American Civil War general Ambrose Burnside, a man known for his unusual facial hairstyle that connected thick sideburns by way of a moustache, but left the chin clean-shaven.

Buckling the trend, a group of five workers of the São Paulo Railway, more precisely Joaquim Ambrose and Anthony Pereira ( wall painters ), Rafael Perrone ( shoemaker ), Anselmo Correia ( driver ) and Carlos Silva ( general laborer ), residents of the neighborhood of Bom Retiro.

Ambrose Powell Hill, Jr. ( November 9, 1825 – April 2, 1865 ), was a career U. S. Army officer in the Mexican – American War and Seminole Wars and a Confederate general in the American Civil War.

Ambrose hoped that a general council would be called in support of his friend.

" Ambrose was agitating for a general council to bring matters to a head, and succeeded in persuading the western emperor, Gratian, to convoke one in Rome.

* Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick ( c. 1530 – 1590 ), English general and patron of moderate Puritanism

A letter of Ambrose and his brother-prelates to Theodosius remonstrates against the acts of Nectarius as no rightful bishop, since the chair of Constantinople belonged to Maximus, whose restoration they demanded, as well as that a general council of Easterns and Westerns, to settle the disputed episcopate and that of Antioch, should be held at Rome.

Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick, KG ( c. 1530 – 21 February 1590 ) was an English nobleman and general, and an elder brother of Queen Elizabeth I's favourite, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester.

Paul Ambrose Oliver ( July 18, 1831 – May 17, 1912 ) was an American explosives inventor, American Civil War Union Army captain and staff officer who was appointed to the brevet grade of brigadier general and Medal of Honor recipient.

Participants as counsel in the trials included Ambrose L. Jordan, as leading counsel for the defense and John Van Buren, the state attorney general, who personally conducted the prosecution.

* Ambrose Burnside, American general and the inventor of the Burnside carbine, and for whom sideburns are reportedly named

* Paul Ambrose Oliver ( 1830 – 1912 ), American Civil War Union general and Medal of Honor recipient

The recriminations that followed Fredericksburg led to a famous general order in which army commander Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside proposed to dismiss several of the senior officers of the army.

As a brigadier general, he was not considered eligible to command a department and Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside was sent to relieve him.