Framed General Burnside at the Battle of Fredericksburg, 1862 by Henry Alexander Ogden

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General Burnside at the Battle of Fredericksburg, 1862 by Henry Alexander Ogden portrays Union General Ambrose E. Burnside during one of the Civil War’s most devastating Union defeats. Set against a bleak and smoke-filled backdrop, Burnside is depicted near a ridge, overseeing the disastrous frontal assaults against Confederate positions on Marye’s Heights. Ogden presents Burnside with a somber, contemplative expression—his posture suggesting the weight of command and the burden of unfolding failure. The painting contrasts the calmness of headquarters with the chaos in the distance, where Union troops suffer heavy losses. Through restrained yet evocative detail, Ogden conveys the tragedy of miscalculation and the human cost of war, capturing a moment of military leadership marked not by glory, but by grim consequence.