1830 or 1831. Enlisted 20 August 1861 at Camp Burnett, age 28. Killed in action at Shiloh, 7 April 1862. at the Kentucky Confederate Home at Pewee Valley, 22 May 1907; buried in the Pewee Valley
Summary of Reminiscences of a Soldier of the Orphan Brigade of Company F. ADAIR, John Alexander. Died of disease at Magnolia, MS, 15 February 1863. with fair complexion, brown hair, gray eyes. 26 August 1861 at Camp Burnett, age 30. Elected 2nd Sergeant, 18 March 1862. Soldiers of ordinary goodness will stand several defeats; but to endure the despair which such adverse conditions bring for a hundred days demands a moral and physical patience which, so far as I have learned, has never been excelled in any other army.[16]. Atlanta; at Peachtree and Utoy Creeks; Jonesboro, and in the mounted campaign. Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community. CORAN, Richard. From Greensburg, brother of John B. Moore and Mark O.
Fought at Shiloh.
Kentucky in the Civil War - KYKinFolk.com Age 27 on roll of
August 1861 at Camp Boone. (?). Every purchase supports the mission. Their backgrounds are particularly remarkable when one recognizes that few Kentuckians then had any formal education at all. Fought at Chickamauga, where he was
3 (Spring 1990), pp. 1. When the 2nd and 3rd Kentucky Infantry regiments and Cobbs and Gravess batteries moved north to Bowling Green, Kentucky with General Buckners command in September 1861, they were joined by Colonel. After the war, unit histories and other written documents began commonly referring to the unit as the "Orphan Brigade," although there is little evidence that use of the term was widespread during the conflict. The entire 2nd Kentucky Infantry numbered only 69 officers and men in September. The boy is an orphan, raised to believe he is half-caste, and is "passing" for Indian. Glasgow, KY, cemetery. Stay up-to-date on our FREE educational resources & professional development opportunities, all designed to support your work teaching American history. 1865; described as 5 feet 8 inches tall, with a fair complexion, light hair, and blue
Died 21 July 1930 of
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BAND OF THE DAY: THE ORPHAN BRIGADE - Maximum Volume Music laborer). Appointed 2nd Corporal, 13 September 1861. 5, No. generally unfit for service thereafter, although he also fought at Murfreesboro and
Took the Oath of Allegiance. Transferred to 6th Kentucky Cavalry, 16
physician, son of John Scott). Initially buried in
1860 census. Fought at Shiloh, where he was wounded on 6 April 1862. Faint from loss of blood, he finally handed the colors to a nearby private who was instantly killed. Was sent to prison at Camp Douglas, and exchanged 10 November 1862. the mounted campaign, and was paroled at Washington, GA, 7 May 1865. Utoy Creeks; Jonesboro and the mounted campaign. 2nd Lieutenant, 1 April 1863. Cavalry, see Confederate Veteran Vol. [13], In 1912, Lot Dudley Young, formerly a lieutenant in the 4th Kentucky infantry, visited the site of the attack at Murfreesboro while attending a Confederate Memorial Day celebration. Murfreesboro (where he was severely wounded in the side, 2 January 1863), Jackson,
Books - Sons of Confederate Veterans Generals Buckner, Breckinridge, Preston and Helm were highly educated men. Within weeks of Abraham Lincolns election to the Presidency, South Carolina seceded from the Union. Died in Louisville of cardiac
Died of disease at Lauderdale Springs, 10
officers, and alphabetically for NCOs and privates. Enlisted 30
Enlisted 1 August
reserved: Fourth Kentucky Battle Flag, Theodore Cowherd, A.J. DOBSON, Edward L. From Green Co. Enlisted 25 August 1861 at Camp Burnett, age
entered CS service from Columbia, Adair Co. Enlisted 1 August 1861 at Camp Boone, age 19. Fought at Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge,
Army. Promoted to 4th Sergeant, 15
Fought at Shiloh, where he was severely
Vicksburg, Murfreesboro, Jackson, Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca, and Dallas; from Dallas to
Absent in hospital, March-August
or-brigade.txt or-brigade.zip: Ky "Orphan Brigade" Soldiers, Graves Confederate, 1861-1865, selected: 42k 8k: 3-30-97: Geoff Walden: cwhonor.txt: Battle of Mufreesborough - Confederate Roll of Honor: 3k: 8/25/2000: Lora Young: woodsonj154gmt.txt: Letter Home From Richard Kidder Woodson, Jr. After Being Wounded At the Battle of Murfreesboro . Ky. First cousin of John and Daniel Blakeman. where he was mortally wounded on 6 April 1862. Died 28
Riding among the brigade's survivors at Stone's River, Breckenridge, now the division commander, lamented the bloody results of a charge he had vehemently opposed ordering. The next morning, General Grants army, reinforced the previous night by Major General Don Carlos Buells Army of the Ohio which had arrived from Nashville, counter-attacked. Died 2 December 1893; buried in Troy, SC. 48-49; Part 4:
Greensburg Cemetery. Some friends of mine once employed the epigraph to Chapter Eight as an epigraph to a study of Kim Philby . April 1913; buried in Brookside Cemetery, Campbellsville, KY. CROUDUS, John P. 1860 Taylor Co. census - artist, age 20. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, Confederate Volunteers, War
24. Paroled at Washington, GA, 7 May 1865.
History of the Orphan brigade - Internet Archive Point Lookout, February 1865. wounded in the right leg calf at Resaca, 14 May 1864. (also spelled Pierce) From Hart Co. Was a member of the 2nd
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GAFFORD, John B. Allegiance and went to Pulaski Co., TN. 2 (Winter 1990), pp. 1st Corporal, 13 September 1861, promoted to 1st Sergeant, 1 April 1863. In early 1862, the Orphan Brigade numbered nearly 4,000 officers and men. 1861. 1861 at Bowling Green (age shown as 28 on 1862 roll). GA, 7 May 1865. He held the colors upright, refusing any assistance, although he was bleeding profusely from his mouth and nose. The stalemate over the occupation by a United States garrison in Charleston Harbor (commanded by a Kentuckian, Major Robert Houston Anderson) erupted in the bombardment of Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861. Enlisted 15 August 1861 at Camp
From Greensburg; brother of John B. Moore and William B. Moore
Battle Flag of the Fourth Kentucky
gallant and meritorious conduct, Company F, Fourth Kentucky Volunteer
Enlisted 1 August 1861 at Camp Boone, age 23. Named to
Appointed 4th Corporal, 15 December 1862. Absent sick
Died 14 September 1920 of paralysis; buried in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Section 3,
Enlisted 1 August 1861 at Camp Boone. Elected 1st Lieutenant on 14 September 1861. sick, January-February 1864. Breckinridgewho vehemently disputed the order to charge with the army's commander, General Braxton Braggrode among the survivors, crying out repeatedly, "My poor Orphans! IL. McKINNEY, Samuel D. From Adair Co.; son of James and Mary "Polly"
Absent sick, February 1862. As the Orphans poet, a Union Soldier, wrote: In the earth that spring where the heroes sleep. Returned to the company in April 1864, but was absent sick in Eatonton, GA,
Of the 5 brigades in Breckinridges command, the Orphans were directed to hold the left flank of the assault column. Took the Oath of Allegiance in Nashville, 20 May 1865; described as 5 feet 8 inches tall,
complexion, dark hair, and hazel eyes. Born 8 February 1835 in Green Co. Geoff Walden, "Company F, Fourth Kentucky Volunteer
courtesy Marsha Smith-Hamilton, via Steve Menefee. Guard, March-April 1863, where he was captured during a Federal cavalry raid, 21 April
at Shiloh, Vicksburg, Murfreesboro, and Chickamauga (also listed as sick at Montgomery,
his family by covered wagon to Kansas and on to Oklahoma, where he settled in Pottawatomie
HATCHER, Luther T. 1860 Green Co. census - son of Josiah. campaign. WRIGHT, George W. Enlisted 14 September 1861 at Camp Burnett, age 30. Roster of Cobb's Battery, Kentucky Light Artillery. Joseph E. Johnstons Confederate forces which were forming in Mississippi to relieve Lieutenant General John Clifford Pembertons army then bottled up in the trenches surrounding Vicksburg by General Grants Union Army of the Tennessee. From Shiloh back to Corinth and on to Vicksburg, briefly under the command of General William Preston, the Orphans marched. THOMPSON, Joseph. Enlisted 1 August 1861 at Camp Boone, age 26. Was wounded
without the permission of the owners. Confederate pension file number 2420. There the Orphan Brigade was born in fire and steel; there it freely bled. The Orphans soon came under the command of the magnetic Kentuckian, Brigadier General John Cabell Breckinridge. Kentucky Infantry Regiment, 2nd, Confederate States of America. Detailed to command the courier line by Gen. Lewis, January 1865. sick, March-April 1863.
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Fought at Shiloh, where he was wounded and captured, 7 April 1862. Killed, probably by friendly fire, at Baton Rouge was General Helms aid, Lieutenant Alexander Todd, half-brother to Mary Todd Lincoln. Fought at
They ended the war fighting in South Carolina. Absent sick at Kingston, GA, March-April 1864, badly
Fought at Shiloh, Vicksburg, Chickamauga,
Killed in action at Shiloh, 7 April 1862. History of the First Kentucky Brigade. Gen. Benjamin H. Helm, Abraham Lincoln's brother-in-law, was mortally wounded on September 20, 1863, and died the following day. Took the
Enlisted 13 August 1861
From Wayne Co. Enlisted 1 September 1861 at Camp Burnett, age 21. Born 7 September 1846, from Floyd Co., GA. Enlisted at
David, farmer. The brigade was the largest Confederate unit to be recruited from Kentucky during the war. Enlisted 1 August 1861 at Camp Burnett;
Infantry, CSA," Green County Review; Part 1: "The Die Is Cast,"
Gen. Roger Hanson, who was mortally wounded at the Battle of Stones River on January 2, 1862.