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I don't believe they were named after anyone, but there was a General Ambrose E. Burnside who had gnarly sideburns. I have heard that the facial hairstyle was named after him, but I have never seen it cited in any credible source

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General Burnside - a pleasant and modest man who never wanted to be a General, and an unlucky one when it was forced on him.

His growth of side-whiskers was prodigious.

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The General that was best known for his sideburns was the Union General Ambrose Burnside. (If you need to remember his name then you could remember his last name: Burnside Sideburn).

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