Burnside's Boys: The Union's Ninth Corps and the Civil War in the East (Darin Wipperman - UA) Gettysburg photographs By looking back to their

By looking back to their first entries into public life

After a year of unsuccessful attempts

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

by John Horn

Booth was in contact with key members of the Confederate underground

Burnside's Boys: The Union's Ninth Corps and the Civil War in the East (Darin Wipperman - UA) Gettysburg photographs By looking back to theirby 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