burnside has gained a great success.
"Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia"
Seba Smith
We saw the battle of Antietam and were under a terrible artillery fire but we were in the reserve and I am sure that I need only say that it was the opinion of every man and officer in our brigade that if the Sixth Corps had been thrown forward that afternoon over the burnside bridge after burnside crossed it and placed across the right flank of the Confederate army, which were all there lying in the wheat field opposite us, the result of that battle would have been far different from what it was.
"Notes of a staff officer of our First New Jersey Brigade on the Seven Day's Battle on the peninsula in 1862"
E. Burd Grubb
I remember seeing Colonel burnside about daylight that morning, pushing forward all alone, considerably in advance of the main column.
"The Rhode Island Artillery at the First Battle of Bull Run"
J. Albert Monroe
