Mary Richmond (Bishop) Burnside (1828 - 1876)

Born 26 Oct 1828 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States

Wife of Ambrose Everett Burnside — married 27 Apr 1852 (to 1876) in Providence, Rhode Island, USA

Died 9 Mar 1876 at age 47 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States

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Biography

The Civil War Monitor - Volume 14, no. 1, Spring 2024

Mary was the daughter of Nathaniel Bishop and Fanny Winsor. She met Ambrose Burnside while he was in the Army and stationed at Fort Adams in Newport. They were married on April 27, 1852. After his well-known service in the Civil War, they lived on Benefit Street in Providence and on Edgehill Farm in Bristol. Mary was Rhode Island's First Lady from 1866 to 1869.

Sources

• Ambrose Burnside, from Wikipedia
• “Partners in War,” The Civil War Monitor, Vol. 14, no. 1 (Spring 2024): 26.
• https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/196284123/person/252565842704/facts?msg=ntm&msgParams=%7c4%7c4%7c&mpid=252565842704&nec=1
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23254465/mary-richmond-burnside
• "Gen. Burnside posters at the Bristol Statehouse next week," Bristol Phoenix (May 4, 2017): 14. (Edgehill mentioned, now the northern part of the Roger Williams University campus) https://cdn5.creativecirclemedia.com/eastbayri/files/ae3b838edf.pdf