Burnside's North Carolina Expedition was a series of engagements fought along the North Carolina Coast between February and June 1862. The expedition was part of Winfield Scott's overall Anaconda Plan
General Ambrose Burnside. Photo by Mathew Brady
Deaths of Colonel J. W. Allen, Surgeon Waller and the Second Mate of the Ann E. Thompson, on January 15th, 1862, near Hatteras Inlet.
Second Day’s Action at Hatteras Inlet. Shelling Fort Hatteras
Ambrose Burnside
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Ambrose Everts Burnside was an American army officer and politician who became a senior Union general in the American Civil War and a three-time governor of Rhode Island, as well as being an inventor
Burnside's North Carolina Expedition
…blockade-running ports inside the Outer Banks. The amphibious operation was carried out primarily by New England and North Carolina troops under Brig. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside and assisted by the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron under Captain Louis M. Goldsborough. In August 1861, Major General Benjamin F. Butler and Flag…
Burnside c. 1880
Mrs. Burnside, Mary Richmond Bishop
Burnside (seated, center) and officers of the 1st Rhode Island at Camp Sprague, Rhode Island, 1861