Ambrose Burnside Monument

The unusually bushy hair on the sides of his face became known as «sideburns» a play on his last name, and late in life he became the first president of the National Rifle Association.
He was quite the Renaissance Man — a railroad mogul, an inventor, a businessman, and a politician, serving as governor and a senator from Rhode Island. He graduated from West Point, took an Apache arrow in the neck in 1849, and later served as a General in the Union Army where he commanded a regiment of Rhode Island soldiers during the Civil War.
The Ambrose Burnside Monument is a bronze sculpture of Burnside on his horse. It’s located in City Hall Park in Providence. It was sculpted in 1887 and moved to the park in 1906.
Check our Burnside’s sideburns!