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- NAME: Ambrose Burnside
- OCCUPATION: General, U.S. Governor
- BIRTH DATE: May 23, 1824
- DEATH DATE: September 13, 1881
- EDUCATION: U.S. Military Academy at West Point
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Liberty, Indiana
- PLACE OF DEATH: Bristol, Rhode Island
- Full Name: Ambrose Everett Burnside
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Ambrose Burnside is best known for his leadership as a general of the Union army in the Civil War, and for originating the fashion of sideburns in the United States.
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Ambrose Burnside was a Union general in the American Civil War and originator in the United States of the fashion of side whiskers (later known as sideburns).
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