Burnside's Boys: The Union's Ninth Corps and the Civil War in the East (Darin Wipperman - UA) 5th Mass documents and primary sources

documents and primary sources

and sickness were prevalent throughout the prison

few were more pervasive than malaria--a mosquito-borne illness that afflicted over 1

So begins this epic work―named a best book of the year by the Washington Post

Burnside's Boys: The Union's Ninth Corps and the Civil War in the East (Darin Wipperman - UA) 5th Mass documents and primary sourcesby 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