General burnsides whole force was pouring down to the Stafford hills. |
Over the last few years, the Smiths and Burnsides have socialised together at parties and barbecues and often visited each others' houses. |
These whiskers, which left the chin clean-shaven, were called burnsides or sideburns, after the U. S. Civil War general Ambrose Burnside. |
In front of this wall the previous year, nearly 6,000 of burnsides men had fallen, and it was not carried. |
As Jim Dickinson states in the liner notes, it includes three generations of Dickinsons, Burnsides, and Turners. |
In summer they were always on the hills and by the burnsides. |