Although he designed a new breech-loading carbine, his firearms company in Bristol went bankrupt, and he was working for the Illinois Central Railroad at the outbreak of the Civil War.
Although he designed a new breech-loading carbine, his firearms company in Bristol went bankrupt, and he was working for the Illinois Central Railroad at the outbreak of the Civil War. He led an amphibious expeditionary force on the North Carolina coast, capturing Roanoke Island and New Bern before he was transferred to the Army of the Potomac, where he commanded the left wing at Antietam. FTP, identify this Union general, who resigned after being blamed for the defeat at the battle of the Crater, a governor of Rhode Island better known as the general who replaced McClellan in November, 1862, only to be defeated by Lee the next month at the battle of Fredericksburg.
Although he designed a new breech-loading carbine, his firearms company in Bristol went bankrupt, and he was working for the Illinois Central Railroad at the outbreak of the Civil War.
Ambrose {Burnside}