Burnside's Boys: The Union's Ninth Corps and the Civil War in the East (Darin Wipperman - UA) Gettysburg photographs He was initially with the

He was initially with the Ninth Corps during the Overland and Petersburg Campaigns and later at the Second Corps headquarters

this book chronicles the brutal struggle for Port Hudson

Lincoln’s opposition to their plans unleashed the Civil War

By looking back to their first entries into public life

once found in parlor photo albums

Burnside's Boys: The Union's Ninth Corps and the Civil War in the East (Darin Wipperman - UA) Gettysburg photographs He was initially with theby 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