Ambrose Burnside’s disastrous “Mud March” during the Civil War, a campaign doomed by futility and comical incompetence, stands as a prime example of a futile effort that defied all logic and reason.

Ambrose Burnside’s disastrous “Mud March” during the Civil War, a campaign doomed by futility and comical incompetence, stands as a prime example of a futile effort that defied all logic and reason.