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Civil War Illustrations

Colonel Ambrose E. Burnside 

a commander on horseback directing the troops in front of him

Caption: Colonel [Ambrose E.] Burnside, First and Second Rhode Island, and Seventy-first New York Regiments, with Their Artillery, Attacking the Rebel Batteries at Bull Run. Sketched on the spot by A. Waud. See page 218 [for related story]. / [Images of Colonel Burnside and Governor Sprague are labeled.]

Source: Illustration from New York Illustrated News, August 5, 1861, page 216-217.