orphan brigade roster

Murfreesboro, Jackson, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Rocky Face Ridge, and Resaca. Killed in action at Shiloh, 7 April 1862. When Young revisits the battlegrounds in 1912, he dwells on the "glorious" aspects of war, reflecting his desire to memorialize his fellow soldiers of the Orphan Brigade. The officers and men of the 6 hard-fighting Kentucky infantry regiments and the three Kentucky artillery companies which composed the Orphan Brigade came from virtually every walk of life: mechanic, carpenter, blacksmith, professional man, politician, merchant and farmer. Fought at Shiloh, The Orphans yelled as they ran on the double-quick toward their objective. Enlisted 1 August 1861 at Camp Boone, age 22. Elected 2nd Sergeant, 18 March 1862. Settled in Green Co. Died 26 June 1916 of cancer Admitting his wound was serious, Hanson remarked to Lieutenant General Leonidas Polk as he was being carried to the rear that it was glorious to die for ones country. He would die in agony on January 4 under the care of General Breckinridges wife who was an acting nurse, and would later be buried in the Lexington, Kentucky cemetery. Enlisted 18 Absent sick at From Green Co. (1860 census - farmer, age 25). Enlisted 20 August 1861 at Camp Burnett, age 28. The brigade was the largest Confederate unit to be recruited from Kentucky during the war. Noticed by triumphant Union soldiers more than 24 hours after the fighting ended, and aided by no less a figure than Union Brigadier General Alexander McDowell McCook, Johnson died aboard the Union hospital ship Hannibal on the Tennessee River. Vol. at Washington, GA, 7 May 1865. The Orphan Brigade served throughout the Atlanta Campaign of 1864, then were converted to mounted infantry and opposed Sherman's March to the Sea. courtesy Jeff McQueary. After its hard years of campaigning, the brigade surrendered at Washington, Ga., on May 6, 1865, receiving generous parole terms those in mounted units kept their horses or mules, and every seventh man was allowed to retain his musket for the journey home. further record. Brigade sharpshooters at Dalton, GA, and fought as such throughout the Atlanta was wounded slightly in the groin), and Dallas; from Dallas to Atlanta; and at Peachtree, Men had to leave the state to enlist, and this coupled with Kentucky's position behind Union lines for the bulk of the war meant that soldiers had difficulty returning home on furlough and made it nearly impossible for new recruits to fill the depleted ranks. Fought at This wound rendered him courtesy Johnny Dodd, their gt-gt grandson, Harley Smith's grave Born 28 May 1827 in Lawrence Co., A November 1862 circular prophesied: However this war may terminate, if a man can truthfully claim to have been a worthy member of the Kentucky Brigade he will have a kind of title of nobility.[1]. This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch. called Morgan; brother of John M. Daffron; cousin of Francis M. Daffron; son of Phillip but did not fight in all of the engagements because he had never learned to ride (see Possibly died 8 January 1926, buried in the Thompson Cemetery, Green Co., KY. TITTLE, James. farmer (1850 census, age 18, laborer), cousin of William L. Smith (below). Cavalry and paroled at Athens, GA, 7 May 1865. to the edge of the world. the boot and shoe business, becoming a leading local businessman. Lived in Taylor Absent wounded at Montgomery, AL, May-August 1864, and at No further Resaca (where he was wounded in the ankle, 15 May 1864). A popular, but potentially apocryphal, story credits Breckenridge with coining the name. Detailed as company fifer, entitled to Killed, probably by friendly fire, at Baton Rouge was General Helms aid, Lieutenant Alexander Todd, half-brother to Mary Todd Lincoln. Old Joe Lewiss 6th Kentucky Infantry was on the extreme left of the brigade, with Old Tribs 4th Kentucky on the right, and the 2nd Kentucky in the center. Paroled 25 May 1865 at At the Battle of Stones River, the brigade suffered heavy casualties in an assault on January 2, 1863, including General Hanson. Colonel William Preston sent word to his cousin, Old Breck, of the fatal wounding of General Albert Sidney Johnston before mid-afternoon. (?). extra duty guarding horses in the regimental commissary, January-April 1864. Later 3rd Corporal. Kelly marker, Ben B. Scott, D.L. him as 5 feet 7 inches tall, dark hair, eyes, and complexion, occupation farmer. From Taylor Co. Enlisted 15 August 1861 at Camp Burnett, The Orphans formed the left flank of General Breckinridges assault column. Discharged 22 September 1862, due to "constitutional debility consequent from They would have to pass in front of the Union guns on their left without any protection at all. The Orphan Brigade: The Kentucky Confederates Who Couldn't Go Home. A search into the history of warlike exploits has failed to show me any endurance to the worst trials of war surpassing this. The 5th Kentucky Infantry was organized at Prestonsburg in eastern Kentucky and would fight there during the first 2 years of war and then at Chickamauga. from a reunion photo taken in 1905 Enlisted 1 September 1861 at Camp Burnett, age 24. Died of disease in MS, 10 January 1863 The diaries and letters of the Orphans reveal that those men were deeply religious; many were firm Southern Baptists, although their commanders were, in large measure, Presbyterians and Episcopalians. September 1862. From a reunion photo taken in In 1862, Breckinridge was promoted to division command and was succeeded in the brigade by Brig. Fought at (standing on the left; the man He was captured at On January 19, 1862, while the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 6th and 9th Kentucky infantry regiments and Cobbs, Gravess, and Byrnes artillery batteries were at Bowling Green, Kentucky, Johnstons right flank was crushed at the Battle of Mill Springs, in Pulaski County, Kentucky, and the Confederacys northern frontier began to collapse. The new legislature went so far as to make joining or supporting the Confederate Army a felony. courtesy Jeff McQueary, HALL, William A. 1861 at Camp Burnett, age 20. Names Thompson, Edwin Porter, 1834- [from old catalog] Missionary Ridge, Rocky Face Ridge, and Resaca (where he was wounded in the right cheek, entries) Enlisted 1 September 1861 at Camp Burnett, age 18. Enlisted 3 November 1861 at Bowling Green, age Commanded by Colonel Robert Trabue, the Orphan Brigade was 2,400 men strong and part of General John C. Breckinridges Reserve Division when it went into the fighting near Shiloh Church on Sunday, April 6, against General Ulysses S. Grants five Union divisions. 20 August 1861 at Camp Burnett, age 30. It is easy for men to bear great trials under circumstances of victory. Listed as laborer in household of G.W. Donations to the Trust are tax deductible to the full extent allowable under the law. from the effects at a hospital in Atlanta, 17 May 1864. Absent sick We gratefully acknowledge the Ultimately, Kentucky provided nearly 80,000 of its sons to the Union war effort, three times the number who served in the Confederate armies. White Gaddie. Reduced to 4th Sergeant, 18 March 1862. All contents copyright 1996-2014, Geoff Walden, Laura Intrenchment, and Utoy Creeks; Jonesboro and the mounted campaign. Deserted at Corinth, MS, 7 April 1862. The brigade had won its nickname. Generals Buckner, Breckinridge, Preston and Helm were highly educated men. enaemia; buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Clinton, IL. officers, and alphabetically for NCOs and privates. Married 1st, Army. Mtd. KELLY, Andrew. From Wayne Co. Enlisted 14 August 1861 at Camp Burnett, courtesy Jeff McQueary. Born 16 November 1842 in Wayne Co., family of Michael and 1830 or 1831. Camp Burnett. Son of Elhannon Winchester Daffron and service, October 1864. Corporate Information | Privacy | Terms and Conditions | CCPA Notice at Collection, medal for Barnett-Marshall Cemetery, Green Co. SMITH, William Ambrose. Enlisted either 12 Compiled Service Records, Fourth Kentucky Mounted Infantry, National Archives Record Fought at Baton Rouge, Murfreesboro, Jackson, Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca, and Dallas. It was then converted to mounted infantry, and opposed Sherman's March to Luchetta, Lynne McNamara, Jeff McQueary, Steve Menefee, Darlene Mercer, D. S. Neel, Jr., The brigade fought bravely and with distinction at a variety of battles throughout the Western Theater, including Shiloh and Stones River, as well as in the Atlanta and Carolinas campaigns. Atlanta; and at Peachtree, Intrenchment, and Utoy Creeks. grocer in the 1860 census. WHELAN, Michael. Discharged for lameness due to disease, 10 September 1862. By the fall of 1864, the brigade numbered barely 700, many of them convalescents and new recruits. Later joined 3rd Kentucky "Tobey" From Wayne Co. Enlisted 1 September 1861 at 26. John Blakeman, first cousin of Milton Blakeman. A. J. Mustered into service and elected Captain, 13 September 1861 at Camp Burnett, TN. reserved: Fourth Kentucky Battle Flag, Theodore Cowherd, A.J. Enlisted 1 September 1861 at Camp D (info and rosters from Stephen Bowling's Homepage) Campaign; fought in the mounted infantry engagements in GA and SC. late April 1865 (roll dated 28 April 1865). Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1980. G, Company B (info and There the Orphan Brigade was born in fire and steel; there it freely bled. Enlisted 25 October 1861 at Bowling Green. One possible provenance of the name stems from Kentucky's tenuous political situation. Battle Flag of the Fourth Kentucky Utoy Creeks; Jonesboro and the mounted campaign. Enlisted 17 August 1861 at Camp Burnett. The Orphans thought that the war would be fought over their native state, but it was not to be. Shiloh, Vicksburg, Murfreesboro, Jackson, and Chickamauga. Enlisted 25 October 1861 in Bowling Appointed Acting Asst. Waggoner, Co. F, 4th Ky. They were given a bounty if they brought their own rifle. That legion hath marched past the setting sun; Beaten? SMITH, Thomas Jefferson. On the tree was inscribed: T.B. Inf., was listed as an inmate of the Kentucky Confederate Home in Died 18 May 1922; buried in the City Cemetery in No WRIGHT, George W. Enlisted 14 September 1861 at Camp Burnett, age 30. 1841 in Mercer Co., KY; The Orphans never stepped foot on their native soil. I wish to express my sincere appreciation to the at Lauderdale Springs, MS, August-December 1863. Died of pneumonia at Burnsville, MS, 10 April 1862. Married 1st, Mary Howell Wooldridge, and 2nd, Fannie Loyall. Sign up to receive the latest information on the American Battlefield Trust's efforts to blaze The Liberty Trail in South Carolina. Died 16 January 1908; buried in the Greensburg sick, March-April 1863. After organization and muster, the regiment moved north into Kentucky and camped at Bowling Green, where it remained until early 1862. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2002. shortly after his return home by Union guerrillas William Ayres and Jesse Bell (Ayres was Promoted to 4th Sergeant, 15 General Bragg summoned General Breckinridge to his headquarters at noon and directed him to advance his Kentuckians against elements of Kentuckian Major General Thomas Leonidas Crittendens Union XXI Corps massed on the Union left in front of a bluff overlooking Stones River. Upon hearing the signing of My Old Kentucky Home by a childrens choir and remembering those who had fallen along those fields, including his dear friend, Captain William Peter Bramblett of Paris, Kentucky (whose last, parting glance before receiving a mortal wound, Young could not erase from his memory), tightly hugged a nearby tree and wept out loud, unashamed of his display of emotion.[14]. Fought at Dallas, Peachtree Creek, and Intrenchment Creek (Atlanta), where of Kentucky Confederate veterans taken at the 1905 reunion in Louisville. Oath of Allegiance in prison, and dropped from the rolls, September 1863. Missionary Ridge, Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca, and Dallas; from Dallas to Atlanta; Peachtree orphan brigade rostergarlic stuffed roast beef. Enlisted 10 September 1864 at Members of the Orphan Brigade gave up everything they possessed to fight for the Confederacy: families and homes, and their identity with their State, as well as with the old Union. Kentucky Of the 5 brigades in Breckinridges command, the Orphans were directed to hold the left flank of the assault column. Returned to duty, 13 February 1865, Settled in Lebanon, where he worked as an accountant Married Mary Ann (Polly) Singleton, 17 May 1869 in Wayne Co. Enlisted 18 September 1861 at Average Ages of Co. F, 4th Ky. Davis, William C. Breckinridge: Statesman, Soldier, Symbol. Smith; brother of William His cousin, Brigadier General William Preston of Louisville, descendant of among Kentuckys earliest Virginia pioneer settlers, lawyer and President James Buchanans minister to Spain, as well as one-time brother-in-law of Kentuckian General Albert Sidney Johnston (who would die in Prestons arms at the Battle of Shiloh), would lead the Orphans at Vicksburg and would be closely identified with the brigade throughout much of the war. 17 (1909), p. 525 and Vol. From Warren Co. Enlisted 1 September 1861 at Camp Burnett, age 18. Greensburg Cemetery. SC Confederate pension file Elected 2nd Lieutenant on 13 September 1861. Died in Louisville of cardiac Atlanta; at Peachtree, Intrenchment, and Utoy Creeks; and at Jonesboro. 1912.). Moore. Enlisted 15 August 1861 at Camp Burnett, age 22. Madison Johnston and Sarah Edwards Johnston; brother of George E. Johnston. wounded in the left hand, 15 May 1864. Those men would form the nucleus around which was organized the Orphan Brigade. Married Mary Ellen (Mollie) Gaddie, 19 December 1867. marker in McLoud, OK. SMITH, Samuel W. From Green Co., son of John A.W. Died 16 January 1915; buried in Inf., at Muster-In GA, 7 May 1865. From Beards Store, Owen Co. From Baton Rouge the Orphans were marched on dusty roads north all the way to Knoxville, Tennessee under their new commander, General Roger W. Hanson (who had just been released from Fort Warren prison after his capture at Fort Donelson), to join General John C. Breckinridges Division, with high hopes of returning to their Old Kentucky Home. They bid farewell to the 3rd Kentucky which returned to Vicksburg. Barnesville, GA, 10 September 1864. The counties from which they hailed were located mostly in the rich farming belts of Kentucky. Wounded at Shiloh, 6 April 1862, Named to the Confederate Roll of Honor after Murfreesboro, for carrying the Served in the McMinnville Guard, March-April 1863. Initially, the Orphans were helmed by Maj. Gen. John C. Breckenridge, who was wildly popular among the men, even after he was promoted and transferred. The cry of General Breckinridge, My poor Orphans! was not in vain. killed in action, either 19 or 20 September 1863. Fought at Resaca, where he was severely After the surrender, Hewitt brought the boxes back to Kentucky with him, and in 1887 he donated them to the U.S. War Department. Reminiscences of a Soldier of the Orphan Brigade. Absent in hospital, March-August Appears in photo of Kentucky Confederate veterans taken at the Louisville reunion Company I [9], Up, my men, and charge! shouted General Breckinridge at about 4 oclock that dreary and cold afternoon. Army. Moore's Grave Marker in the Murfreesboro, Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca, and Dallas; from Dallas to Atlanta; at Peachtree, Died 14 September 1920 of paralysis; buried in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Section 3, 1861 at Camp Burnett, TN. Smith, ca. General Breckinridge, a Lexington, Kentucky lawyer, grandson of Thomas Jeffersons attorney general (John Breckinridge), Congressman from Henry Clays Ashland district, former Vice President of the United States under President James Buchanan and United States Senator, was not the only personality of national importance who would lead the Orphans. They came from 33 of Kentuckys now 120 counties, and from every region of the old Commonwealth; from as far east in the mountains as Johnson, Morgan and Breathitt Counties, to as far west as Graves and Trigg Counties. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1974. age 12, as company drummer. Absent sick at Bowling Green in January 1862. In the beginning, those Kentuckians whose regiments ultimately formed the Orphan Brigade were reassured by the fact that the Confederate northern defense lines, commanded by General Albert Sidney Johnston, then extended across southern Kentucky, from Columbus on the Mississippi River to Bowling Green to Kentuckys southeastern foothills near Cumberland Gap. Face Ridge, Resaca, and Dallas. subsequent mounted engagements. In the cold November 25, 1863 the Orphans were forced to abandon Missionary Ridge in the face of tenacious assaults by the Union Army of the Cumberland under its new commander, General Ulysses S. Grant. The most prominent of those camps, not surprisingly, was named Camp Boone, near Clarksville, Tennessee. 659-666. Served as part of the Burnett, age 27. following friends who supplied information used in this roster; without their generous Fought at Shiloh crippled (possibly from a wound). Served in the McMinnville Guard, March-April 1863. 1 st Nebraska, Veteran Volunteers: Roster Co. B, 2 nd Brigade, 1 st Nebraska Mil. Killed in action at Jonesboro, GILBERT, Ambrose G. Enlisted 1 August 1861 at Camp Boone, age 26. Rouge. Fought at Dropped from the rolls by 30 April 1862. Enlisted either 15 August or 14 September 1861 at Camp Burnett, It would join the Orphan Brigade on November 5, 1863 at Chattanooga, Tennessee. The irascible Bragg retorted, Sir, my information is different. Learn more. Campaign. The 4th Kentucky lost over one-half of its number, including the noble Governor George W. Johnson who fell on the field after bullets struck him in the right thigh and abdomen. Peachtree, Intenchment, and Utoy Creeks; and at Jonesboro (where he was wounded on 1 Ky. WELLS, George W. Shown on the muster roll for parole at Washington, GA, 7 May Hall, George Johnston, T.L. He was carried from the battlefield. military record. COWHERD, Theodore. Historical Sketch & Roster of the South Carolina 8th Infantry Regiment (South Carolina Confederate Regimental History . Oklahoma Confederate Enlisted 1 August 1861 at Camp Boone, age 22. Paroled at Washington, GA, 7 May 1865. Mostly, they came from regions of Kentucky (and areas of particular counties in the State) where the people identified, economically and politically, with the lower Southland. Eliza Jane Brewster Kennedy; 2nd, Matilda "Kate" Noland; and 3rd, Wilmoth Gen. Roger Hanson, who was mortally wounded at the Battle of Stones River on January 2, 1862. Promoted to 3rd Sergeant, 1 April 1863. 1865 (Iowa State Historical Society). in 1905. From Green Co., family of James Smith, age 25. Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca, and Dallas; from Dallas to JOHNSTON, George Edwards. 1 (Frankfort, 1915), pp. 2nd Lieutenant, 1 April 1863. 88-89. Was deputy Discharge certificate describes Fought at Shiloh, Vicksburg, Baton Rouge, Murfreesboro, Died 20 July 1926 of Sergeant, 13 September 1861. Geoff Walden, "Company F, Fourth Kentucky Volunteer news . Enlisted 1 August 1861 at Camp Boone, age 20. There the Orphans received into their brigade the 5th Kentucky Infantry; they bid farewell to the hard-fighting 41st Alabama. Notice: Function is_feed was called incorrectly.Conditional query tags do not work before the query is run. For Served in the McMinnville Guard, March-April 1863, where he was captured during a Federal cavalry raid, 21 April Though Kentucky declared its neutrality on May 20, 1861, many of its citizens did not agree with that act. Gen. Benjamin Hardin Helm was also mortally wounded during the Battle of Chickamauga in September 1863. Many and many a noble heart beat high with hope, and with the pride that the expectation of the great achievements naturally inspires, was now stilled in death. Cavalry, see Confederate Veteran Vol. Appointed 3rd Corporal, 13 September 1861 (? MARSHALL, Samuel Edwin. AL, September-October 1863), Missionary Ridge, Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca, and Dallas; from Muster Roll for Parole, Co. F, 4th Kentucky Mounted Infantry, Washington, GA, 7 May . Moved to Texas in 1861. Married Francis "Fanny" Adams in 1878, and moved Married Mary B. Stockton, 3 June 1856. Roster of Cobb's Battery, Kentucky Light Artillery. or 15 September 1861 at Camp Burnett, age 18. These, our slain, lay in soldiers graves, scattered promiscuously, and with no mark even so much as to name them, and say to the future generations that such and such a one sleeps here. 170-173. Men would be wounded, return to the brigade only to be wounded again and again, or killed. Born 7 September 1846, from Floyd Co., GA. Enlisted at Initially buried in Green. KY. Enlisted 15 August 1861 at Camp Burnett. 24. Kentucky Confederate pension file number 1878. The ironclad Arkansas, expected to hold Federal gunboats on the Mississippi at bay, failed to appear. Buried in either Anderson The men of this campaign were at each stage of their retreat going farther from their firesides. Lieutenant on 15 December 1861, and to Captain on 17 February 1863. Went to Texas, My poor Orphans! The men had never seen him so visibly moved. 1863. Thompson, Edward Porter. (possibly at Oxford, MS). Brother of William B. and Mark O. Moore. Later moved to Louisville and engaged in the coal business. Kniffin, History of Kentucky Illustrated (1888), p. 766. Detailed to his family by covered wagon to Kansas and on to Oklahoma, where he settled in Pottawatomie Cook. No further information. The age at enlistment was, Spellings are shown as they appear on period muster rolls and rosters, with May 1862. the orphan brigade. Kentucky, but escaped capture at Ft. Donelson, and transferred to the 4th Kentucky in census. Born 1 November 1834 in Taylor Co.; son of Henry and BOSTON, Jesse. Boone. The 6th Kentucky Infantry numbered only 74. Brewer, farmer). Death Certificates (Kentucky Department of Human Resources, Bureau of Vital Statistics, laborer). Served as a teamster, February-April 1863. Died of disease at Magnolia, MS, 15 February 1863. (killed, wounded, died, captured, missing), Total permanent losses 75 (71%) was wounded in a skirmish at Pine Mountain, GA, 21 June 1864 (note - probably Kennesaw Mt. BLAKEMAN, John T. Born 11 September 1838 in Green Co., family of Moses and Narcissa without the permission of the owners. From the album 'To The Edge of The World' by The Orphan Brigade(released September 2019)Filmed by James Demain, Joshua Britt & Neilson Hubbard.Animation by J. The Orphans were, according to one account, ones who would stick to [the fighting] as long as they [could] find a foe to shoot at! The record of the Orphans, wrote one distinguished American scholar, is a record of heroism in war that has never been surpassed. General Joseph Eggleston. They ended the war fighting in South Carolina. A shell exploded nearby. Absent sick at Kingston, GA, March-April 1864, badly September 1931, the last survivor of Company F. Buried in the Howell Cemetery, Allendale, Units of the Orphan Brigade were involved in many military engagements in the American South during the war, including the Battle of Shiloh. (this canteen still exists in a private collection in south-central Kentucky). Box 537 Frankfort, KY 40601 (502) 875-7000 http://www.kdla.ky.gov/ wounded 6 April 1862. From Green Co.; son of John A. W. Smith (? Shiloh, where he was severely wounded in the head on 6 April 1862. History of the Orphan brigade : Thompson, Edwin Porter, 1834- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive History of the Orphan brigade by Thompson, Edwin Porter, 1834- Publication date 1898 Topics Confederate States of America. SCOTT, Benjamin Bell. Died 28 No further military record. January 1862. Captured at Biography in Perrin, Battle, & No feet 1 inch tall, with a fair complexion, light hair, and gray eyes. Army. in March 1865, and was thus engaged when the war ended. Union recruiting was begun in the state after the legislative elections in August, 1861 at Camp Dick Robinson in Garrard County, and a pro-Union Home Guard was raised and financed by the state legislature. Enlisted 14 September 1861 at Camp Burnett, age 26. misfiled under Co. K, 42nd Georgia Infantry, but that he was actually in the 4th As the Orphans poet, a Union Soldier, wrote: In the earth that spring where the heroes sleep. 11th Kentucky Infantry Regiment, Union Army Muster Roster 11th Kentucky Infantry Regiment File provided by: A Captain David L. Payne Camp, Sons of Union Veterans, Project. WAGGONER, Edward Arthur. where he was mortally wounded on 6 April 1862. from a reunion photo taken in 1905 Fought at Died 5 July COWHERD, Richard T. From Green Co., born 1836. Farther south, the brigade entered the bloody fighting near Baton Rouge, Louisiana on August 2, 1862 where General Benjamin Hardin Helm, the brigades new commander, was wounded. Philip Lightfoot Lee became the Commonwealths Attorney for Jefferson County, Kentucky. at Shiloh, Vicksburg, Murfreesboro, and Chickamauga (also listed as sick at Montgomery, 1. Killed in action at Shiloh, 7 April 1862. Fought at Shiloh, Vicksburg, Baton Louisville, Kentucky, June 1905 (this photo is large and may take some time to load; copy HARNESS, John R. From Wayne Co. Enlisted 1 September 1861 at Camp Fought at Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, October 1861 at Nashville. Transferred to 3rd Kentucky Infantry, 15 April 1862. Finally, Private Joseph Nichols carried the colors off the field. Johnny Green of the Orphan Brigade: The Journal of a Confederate Soldier. in Oxford, MS, September-December 1862. Took the Oath of Allegiance and enlisted in the US Army for frontier Kentucky. As the Orphans fought their way farther from Kentucky, they watched the Confederacys western front crumble. And then the Battle of Shiloh was fought along the Tennessee River; those two bloody April days in 1862. Was prevented by ill health from taking January 1863. The item History of the Orphan brigade, by Ed Porter Thompson represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries. Married Mary Ella Gray, 2 April 1868. Lot 24. Graduated from the University of Louisville Medical School in 1871, and practiced Enlisted 13 February 1863 at Manchester, TN. Married 1st, Eliza Jane Moore (sister of Intrenchment, and Utoy Creeks; Jonesboro, and the mounted campaign. August 1861 at Camp Boone. Volunteer Infantry Married Mary C. From Alabama. The First American President: Setting the Precedent, African Americans During the Revolutionary War, Save 42 Historic Acres at the Battle of Chancellorsville, Phase Three of Gaines Mill-Cold Harbor Saved Forever Campaign, An Unparalleled Preservation Opportunity at Gettysburg Battlefield, For Sale: Three Battlefield Tracts Spanning Three Wars, Preserve 128 Sacred Acres at Antietam and Shepherdstown.

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