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Tag Archives: Ambrose Everett Burnside
Little Fireside Chats
From a Seneca County, New York newspaper on January 3, 1863: CONFIDENCE IN THE ARMY OF M’CLELLAN. – S.P. Allen, Esq. editor of the Rochester Democrat, on a visit to the Army of the Potomac, at Fredericksburg, writes that paper … Continue reading
Accidents Happen
From Project Gutenberg (Volume VI): CONGRATULATIONS TO THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, December 22, 1862. TO THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC: I have just read your general’s report of the battle of Fredericksburg. Although you were not … Continue reading
“needlessly, wickedly sacrificed”
From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in December 1862: Again Defeated. What is to be said in this week of the nation’s agony? What word is sufficient in these days red with battle and hot with the flush of … Continue reading
Crestfallen?
From The New-York Times December 18, 1862: GEN. BURNSIDE’S SUNDAY DISPATCH. The following is a copy of a dispatch from Gen. BURNSIDE to the President, sent and received on Sunday morning last, concerning the precise import and phraseology of which … Continue reading
Anaconda’s coil broken – again
Here’s some Southern rhetoric about the Confederacy’s great victory at Fredericksburg, which this editorial views as another failure of the North’s Anaconda Plan. From the Richmond Daily Dispatch December 18, 1862: Burnside’s Whereabouts. At the time of writing this article, … Continue reading
Tom Jackson’s Shoeless Troops
Federal attack at Fredericksburg not imminent – plenty of time to get shoes to Stonewall’s soldiers For about three weeks the Richmond Daily Dispatch has published a daily paragraph “From Fredericksburg.” News has leaked back that Union General Burnside had … Continue reading
ready for “curly-head”
From the Richmond Daily Dispatch December 3, 1862: From Fredericksburg. [Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.] Camp near Fredericksburg, Nov. 29. We came here last Saturday, and the indications were that we would have a fight next day. Reveille was ordered … Continue reading
Pressure pointed
Counting the reasons not to go into winter quarters 150 years ago this week citizens in Richmond could read this recap of the New York Herald’s case for immediate attacks by the federal armies. From the Richmond Daily Dispatch December … Continue reading
“visited by this fiendish invasion”
150 years ago today the Richmond Daily Dispatch reported on Union General Burnside’s demand that Fredericksburg, Virginia surrender or else risk being bombed. The Dispatch report stated that the Yankees lobbed a few shells toward the railroad depot where a … Continue reading
Mac Heads North
Seneca County in upstate New York voted mostly for the Democratic party in 1862. In late September a group of men in the town of Seneca Falls named a political club after George B. McClellan, the commander of the Army … Continue reading
