Burnside's Boys: The Union's Ninth Corps and the Civil War in the East (Darin Wipperman - UA) Gettysburg photographs S/L #33122

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By looking back to their first entries into public life

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by John Horn

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

Burnside's Boys: The Union's Ninth Corps and the Civil War in the East (Darin Wipperman - UA) Gettysburg photographs S/L #33122by 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