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Burnside, Ambrose Everett
 
SYLLABICATION:Burn·side
PRONUNCIATION:  bûrnsd
DATES:1824–1881
American general and politician known more for his side-whiskers (or sideburns) than for his career in the Union Army, which included defeats at Fredericksburg (1862) and Petersburg (1864).
 
 
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  Burns, Robert burnsides  
 
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