Editing Ambrose Burnside (section)

==Honors==
* In 1866, Allison Township in [[Lapeer County, Michigan]], was renamed [[Burnside Township, Michigan|Burnside Township]] to honor Ambrose Burnside.<ref name="Romig">{{cite book | last = Romig | first = Walter  | year = 1986 | title = Michigan Place Names | orig-year= 1973 | publisher = Wayne State University Press | location = Detroit, Michigan | isbn = 0-8143-1838-X}}</ref>
* An [[Equestrian statue of Ambrose Burnside|equestrian statue]] designed by [[Launt Thompson]], a New York sculptor, was dedicated in 1887 at [[Kennedy Plaza|Exchange Place]] in Providence, facing City Hall.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Raub|first1=Patricia|title=Burnside: Our Statue But Not Our Hero|url=http://occupiedprovidencejournal.wordpress.com/2012/02/21/burnside-our-statue-but-not-our-hero/|website=The Occupied Providence Journal|date=February 21, 2012 |access-date=June 14, 2014|quote=The monument stood for nearly twenty years in Exchange Place, facing City Hall, with horses, wagons, and carriages moving in all directions around it.}}</ref> In 1906, the statue was moved to City Hall Park, which was re-dedicated as [[Burnside Park, Providence, Rhode Island|Burnside Park]].<ref name="SmithsonianInventory">{{cite web |title=Major General Ambrose E. Burnside, (sculpture) |url=https://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1T3I1G0593813.67299&profile=ariall&source=~!siartinventories&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!12782~!10 |website=Smithsonian Art Inventories Catalog |publisher=The Smithsonian Institution |access-date=12 August 2022}}</ref>
* [[Bristol, Rhode Island]], has a small street named for Burnside.{{Citation needed|date=July 2020}}
* The Burnside Memorial Hall in Bristol, Rhode Island, is a two-story [[Richardson Romanesque]] public building on Hope Street. It was dedicated in 1883 by President [[Chester A. Arthur]] and Governor [[Augustus O. Bourn]]. Originally, a statue of Burnside was intended to be the focus of the porch. The architect was [[Stephen C. Earle]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Marshall|first1=Philip C.|title=Hope Street Survey Descriptions|url=http://philipmarshall.net/Teaching/rwuhp175/descriptions_hope_street.htm|website=Philip C. Marshall|access-date=September 6, 2015|quote=President Chester A. Arthur and Governor Augustus O. Bourn of Bristol dedicated the hall to the memory of General Ambrose E. Burnside (1824–1881), whose statue was intended to be the focus of the porch.|archive-date=March 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304065255/http://philipmarshall.net/Teaching/rwuhp175/descriptions_hope_street.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Burnside, Kentucky]], in south-central Kentucky, is a small town south of Somerset named for the former site of [[Camp Burnside]], near the former Cumberland River town of Point Isabelle.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}}
* [[New Burnside, Illinois]], along the [[Cairo and Vincennes Railroad]], was named after the former general for his role in founding the village through directorship of the new rail line.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}}
* Burnside Residence Hall at the [[University of Rhode Island]] in [[Kingston, Rhode Island|Kingston]] was opened in 1966.<ref>{{cite web|title=URI History and Timeline |url=http://www.uri.edu/home/about/history_timeline.html |website=University of Rhode Island |access-date=June 14, 2014 |quote=1966. Aldrich, Burnside, Coddington, Dorr, Ellery, and Hopkins Residence Halls were opened |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121114131905/http://www.uri.edu/home/about/history_timeline.html |archive-date=November 14, 2012 }}</ref>
*[[Burnside, Wisconsin]] is named for the general.<ref name="Gard2015">{{cite book|author=Robert E. Gard|title=The Romance of Wisconsin Place Names|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J8auCgAAQBAJ|year=2015|publisher=Wisconsin Historical Society Press|isbn=978-0-87020-708-2}}</ref>