11 1/2" x 8 1/2" Speedball super black India ink, Hunt 102 crowquill pen and Faber-Castell Pitt big brush pens in Canson sketchbook. ..." Burnside had repeatedly demonstrated that it had been a military tragedy to give him a rank higher than colonel. One reason might have been that, with all his deficiencies, Burnside never had any angles of his own to play; he was a simple, honest, loyal soldier, doing his best even if that best was not very good, never scheming or conniving or backbiting. Also, he was modest; in an army many of whose generals were insufferable prima donnas, Burnside never mistook himself for Napoleon. Physically he was impressive: tall, just a little stout, wearing what was probably the most artistic and awe-inspiring set of whiskers in all that bewhiskered Army." - Bruce Catton, Mr. Lincoln's Army. (And what a pair of sideburns!)
