Editing Ambrose Burnside (section)

==Early life==
Burnside was born in [[Liberty, Indiana]], and was the fourth of nine children<ref>Marvel, p. 3.</ref> of Edghill and Pamela (or Pamilia) Brown Burnside, a family of Scottish, Scotch-Irish and [[English people|English]] origins.<ref>Mierka, np. The original spelling of his middle name was Everts, for Dr. Sylvanus Everts, the physician who delivered him. Ambrose Everts was also the name of Edghill's and Pamela's first child, who died a few months before the future general was born. The name was misspelled as "Everett" during his enrollment at [[West Point]], and he did not correct the record.</ref> His great-great-grandfather Robert Burnside (1725–1775) was born in Scotland and settled in the [[Province of South Carolina]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.familysearch.org/en/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081212055830/http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp|url-status=dead|title=Free Family History and Genealogy Records — FamilySearch.org|archive-date=December 12, 2008|website=www.familysearch.org}}</ref> His father was a native of South Carolina; he was a slave owner who freed his slaves when he relocated to Indiana. Ambrose attended Liberty Seminary as a young boy, but his education was interrupted when his mother died in 1841; he was apprenticed to a local tailor, eventually becoming a partner in the business.<ref>Mierka, np., describes the relationship with the tailor as [[indentured servitude]].</ref>

As a young officer before the Civil War, Burnside was engaged to [[Cynthia Charlotte "Lottie" Moon Clark|Charlotte "Lottie" Moon]], who left him at the altar.  When the minister asked if she took him as her husband, Moon is said to have shouted "No siree Bob!" before running out of the church.  Moon is best known for her espionage for the Confederacy during the Civil War.  Later, Burnside arrested Moon, her younger sister [[Virginia Bethel Moon|Virginia "Ginnie" Moon]], and their mother.  He kept them under house arrest for months but never charged them with espionage.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/womenincivilware00larr|title=Women in the Civil War : extraordinary stories of soldiers, spies, nurses, doctors, crusaders, and others|last=Eggleston|first=Larry G.|date=2003|publisher=McFarland|isbn=0786414936|location=Jefferson, N.C.|oclc=51580671}}</ref>