Record Group 393: Records of U.S. Army Continental Commands, 1817 - 1947 Series: Press Copies of Letters Sent by the Headquarters of Major General Ambrose E. Burnside and by Chief of Staff Major General Daniel Butterfield, 6/17/1862 - 3/1863
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Burnside, Ambrose Everett, 1824-1881
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Burnside was born in Liberty, Indiana and was the fourth of nine children of Edghill and Pamela (or Pamilia) Brown Burnside, a family of Scottish origin. His great-great-grandfather Robert Burnside (1725–1775) was born in Scotland and settled in the Province of South Carolina. His father was a native of South Carolina; he was a slave owner who freed his slaves when he relocated to Indiana. Ambrose attended Liberty Seminary as a young boy, but his education was interrupted when his mother died in...
Butterfield, Daniel, 1831-1901
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Butterfield was born on October 31, 1831 in Utica, New York. He attended Union Academy and then graduated in 1849, from Union College in Schenectady, New York, where he became a member of the Sigma Phi Society. That same year, his father, John Warren Butterfield, founded the express company of Butterfield, Wasson, and Co., which later became the American Express Company. After graduating, Daniel studied law but as he was too young to sit the New York bar exam, he toured the country instead. Upon...
