Burnside's Boys: The Union's Ninth Corps and the Civil War in the East (Darin Wipperman - UA) ornament He was a traitor to

He was a traitor to the country he swore to serve as an Army officer

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Burnside's Boys: The Union's Ninth Corps and the Civil War in the East (Darin Wipperman - UA) ornament He was a traitor toby 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