Burnside's Boys: The Union's Ninth Corps and the Civil War in the East

Abstract

Stackpole Books, 2023 Darin Wipperman - journalist, lecturer, and author of First for the Union: Life and Death in a Civil War Army Corps from Antietam to Gettysburg - continues his remarkable study of Civil War military history in Burnside's Boys: The Union's Ninth Corps and Civil War in the East. In a remarkably well-researched volume, Wipperman draws on a range of primary source material - personal accounts, Confederate and Union records, and military correspondence - in providing an unprecedented view of the Ninth Corps' role during the Civil War. Burnside's Boys goes beyond describing the Ninth Corps' role in the Civil War, however; it is a case study on leadership.