But after the fiasco of the Crater he was denied another assignment, and he resigned from the army the day that Lincoln was assassinated. Back in Virginia during the spring and summer of 1864, he once again led a corps at the battles of the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg. In East Tennessee in the summer and fall of 1863, he captured Knoxville, thereby fulfilling one of Lincoln's fondest dreams. In that same year, he commanded a corps at Antietam and the Army of the Potomac at Fredericksburg. Along the Carolina coast in 1862, Burnside won victories that catapulted him to fame. In a biography focusing on the Civil War years, William Marvel reveals a more capable Burnside who managed to acquit himself creditably as a man and a soldier. But until now, he has been remembered mostly for his distinctive side-whiskers that gave us the term "sideburns" and as an incompetent leader who threw away thousands of lives in the bloody battle of Fredericksburg. He led a corps or army during most of this time and played important roles in various theaters of the war.
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