Darin Wipperman has worked as a reporter and editor for weekly newspapers in New Hampshire. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Northern Iowa. He is author of First for the Union: Life and Death in a Civil War Army Corps from Antietam to Gettysburg (Stackpole, 2020) and Burnside’s Boys: The Union’s Ninth Corps and the Civil War in the East (Stackpole, 2023). He lives in Lancaster, New Hampshire.
""In Thunderbolt to the Rebels, Wipperman introduces new source material that enriches the ongoing exploration of the Civil War. This study provides a more comprehensive view then ever seen before of the brave individuals who served and perished as part of the elite 1st and 2nd U.S. Sharpshooters.""-- ""Booklist""