ambrose burnside was a politician who became a general. now, for those of you with si sideburns, your facial hair comes from this guy's mutt muttonchops. burnside, you swap the two names around and you get sideburns. now you know the history of your facial hair. he was a failure as a military commander. he sent wave after wave of union soldiers into an entrenched confederate line and lost thousands and thousands of soldiers in december 1862. it was to terrible an assault he offered to lead the next charge i guess knowing that he'd be killed in it. and his subordinates talked him out of doing such a rash thing. after this failure in the field lincoln decided, i can't leave him in command any more, i'm going to move him out to ohio. and hopefully in ohio he won't have any major battles that he has to deal with and he can take charge of a civilian area. so in the spring of 1863 ambrose burnside was in charge of the department of the ohio, which included ohio, indiana, parts of kentucky, and other areas. he looked around him and saw many copper

from hatteras inlet, general ambrose burnside would conduct an expedition into eastern north carolina with, according to burnside, because of the good information he received from an african-american operative spy, he takes roanoke island in february of '62 with little or no problems. his next objective is fort macon. but on his expedition to take fort macon he goes into newborn, north carolina, one of the most populous cities in south at that time. called the athens of the south. one of the most progressive. had a rather relatively large for a southern city its size, african descent population. about 13% of the population was free -- i should say free population. the african population was 50%. free population was 13% there in newburg. and when burnside gets there, he finds a very friendly population. not only of the enslaved people but the free persons and the stanley family, john caruthers stanley is very wealthy as well. he finds a very friendly population. he appoints vincent collier as the head of refugees and the poor people that are coming in. and collier would almost immediat

so in the spring of 1863 ambrose burnside was in charge of the department of ohio which included ohio, indiana, parts of kentucky and other areas. he looked around him and saw many copperheads, people who opposed the war, people who opposed emancipation and spoke out against lincoln and heish autoed a military order, and i will read you a little bit of it in april 1863. it is general orders number 38. listen to what he does and see if you have any reaction to it. the habit of declaring sympathies for the enemy will not be allowed in this department. persons committing such offenses will be at once arrested and with a view to being tried as above stated, that is with the military commission or sent beyond the lines into the lines of their friends. people who smeek out or sympathize with the enemy will be tried by military commission or sent, banished into the confederacy. it must be distinctly understood that treason expressed or implied will not be tolerated in this department. listen again. it must be distinctly understood that treason expressed or implied will not be tolerated in th