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Union General Ambrose E. Burnside graduated from West Point in 1847. He ranked 18th among a graduating class of 38 cadets. Burnside had a long and distinguished career during the US Civil War and served for a time as the commander of the Army of the Potomac. Two situations, however,were embarrassing for him. The loss at Fredericksburg which caused many Union casualties and his blunder during the Siege of Petersburg, in the infamous Burnside tunnel tragedy.

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