Burnside's Boys: The Union's Ninth Corps and the Civil War in the East (Darin Wipperman - UA) Gettysburg photographs or captured in just a

or captured in just a dozen hours of combat—a grim statistic that tells only part of the story

Booth was in contact with key members of the Confederate underground

By looking back to their first entries into public life

this book chronicles the brutal struggle for Port Hudson

What was the war actually like for these men

Burnside's Boys: The Union's Ninth Corps and the Civil War in the East (Darin Wipperman - UA) Gettysburg photographs or captured in just aby Darin Wipperman Unique among Union army corps, the Ninth fought in both the Eastern and Western theaters of the Civil War. The corps veterans called their service a geography class, and others have called the Ninth a wandering corps because it covered more ground than any corps in the Union armies. With the same attention to detail that he gave to the First Corps in First for the Union, Darin Wipperman vividly reconstructs lifeand deathin the Ninth