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

Burnside's Boys: The Union's Ninth Corps and the Civil War in the East By Darin Wipperman Essex, CT: 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.

Wipperman introduces us to the Ninth Corps' key leaders and regiments during the Carolina Expedition. He masterfully uses Soldiers' letters...