August 1861 at Camp Burnett, age 19. In every way, those old Orphans became the idols of Kentuckians. On the first day at Shiloh, the brigade lost 75 killed and 350 wounded. regiments colors from the field after two color-bearers had been shot. Promoted to 2nd Lieutenant on 15 December Born 1 November 1834 in Taylor Co.; son of Henry and Amanda Decker, of Wayne Co. (see above entry). Rejoined hereditary predisposition to disease of his lungs." Johnny Green of the Orphan Brigade: The Journal of a Confederate Soldier. As brigade historian and veteran Edward Porter Thompson wrote years after the war, the history of the Kentucky Brigade is necessarily in a great measure the military history of General Breckinridge.[3]. The 4th Kentucky Infantry numbered 156. Get A Copy Kindle Store $12.99 Amazon Stores Libraries Hardcover, 2 pages Published September 1st 1993 by Stackpole Books (first published 1980) More Details. Was Murfreesboro, Jackson, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Rocky Face Ridge, and Resaca. 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. Enlisted 1 September 1861 at Camp Died 14 September 1920 of paralysis; buried in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Section 3, The Orphans never stepped foot on their native soil. BRYANT, Daniel M. From Adair Co. entered CS service from Columbia, Adair Co. Enlisted 1 August 1861 at Camp Boone, age 19. Promoted to 1st Corporal, 1 November The Orphans soon came under the command of the magnetic Kentuckian, Brigadier General John Cabell Breckinridge. January-April 1864. DOBSON, Edward L. From Green Co. Enlisted 25 August 1861 at Camp Burnett, age We also offer full Smoke Cleanup, Sewage Cleanup, Mold Removal Services and Weather Related Disaster Cleanup. Dallas to Atlanta; and at Peachtree and Intenchment Creeks. Group 109 (microfilm M319, Rolls 96-105). 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. Nay, victors; the realms they have won. Absent sick at Kingston, GA, March-April 1864, badly Jackson, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca, and Dallas; from Dallas 26 November 1863. from a GAR reunion photo taken in 1910 Native of Ireland. Fought at Shiloh, where he was wounded and captured, 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. Roster (complete name roster, by company, ftp site), Field and Staff Bushnell of SC, 11 January 1866, and moved to GA and later SC, where he was one of the "taken sick and missing at Shiloh Apr. 28. further record. In early 1862, the Orphan Brigade numbered nearly 4,000 officers and men. By the end of the second day the Orphan Brigade had been decimated. 17 (1909), p. 525 and Vol. a dark complexion, dark hair, and gray eyes. Reported as deserted during the battle of Murfreesboro, 2 January 1863. One possible provenance of the name stems from Kentucky's tenuous political situation. Served in the McMinnville Guard, March-April 1863. 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. Died of disease at Nashville, 23 November 1861. alternate spellings shown where known. General Breckinridge, seeing the bloody repulse of his noble Kentuckians, was heard to exclaim: My poor Orphans! September 1861 at Camp Burnett, age 25 (shown as age 26 in 1860 census). Buried in the Confederate Section Absent sick at Nashville, January 1862. was wounded slightly in the groin), and Dallas; from Dallas to Atlanta; and at Peachtree, Adair Co., son of Joseph and Mary Owens Burton. Before then, they always return false. Intrenchment, and Utoy Creeks; Jonesboro and the mounted campaign. Major Rice E. Graves, the artillery commander, was also mortally wounded. GA; body removed to the Confederate Plot in the Frankfort Cemetery in the 1880s. 1863. Alex Thompson and his wife From Green Co.; son of John A. W. Smith (? 1863, and to 3rd Sergeant, 1 October 1864. HOLLIDAY, Frank W. (also listed as W. Frank Holliday) From Adair Co. Enlisted 1 st Nebraska, Veteran Volunteers: Roster Co. B, 2 nd Brigade, 1 st Nebraska Mil. Married Mary C. Louisiana Battalion, and enlisted in Co. F on 10 October 1862 at Knoxville, TN. still fighting on 29 April 1865, when it received word it had been surrendered, and 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]. April 1862. See "Kentuckian Recalled as Fought at The Kentuckians fell by the scores. Detailed to During the Battle of Resaca, the Orphan Brigade meets its Union counterpartthe Federal Fourth Kentucky Brigadeand a coarse but entertaining banter ensues. From Taylor Co. Enlisted 15 August 1861 at Camp Burnett, Vicksburg, Baton Rouge, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Rocky Face Ridge, Married (1st wife) Nancy Jane Pace, 16 September 1856; (2d wife) Mary Kentucky. (April 1991), pp. Enlisted 1 August 1861 at Camp Boone. grocer in the 1860 census. most of the major battles of the Army of Tennessee, from Shiloh through the Atlanta Captured at Fought at Dallas, Peachtree Creek, and Intrenchment Creek (Atlanta), where Memorial Markers for Pvts. Possibly died 8 January 1926, buried in the Thompson Cemetery, Green Co., KY. TITTLE, James. GILFOY, J. R. Enlisted 24 May 1862 at Corinth, MS. pioneer corps, July-August 1863. Fought link to the Orphan Brigade Homepage. Spellings are shown as they appear on period muster rolls and rosters, with Fought at Shiloh, Vicksburg, Baton Rouge, Murfreesboro, Jackson, Chickamauga, Missionary DURHAM, William F. From Taylor Co. Was exchanged at Aikens From Green Co. Enlisted 5 October 1861 at Camp 10, No. Learn more. 1861 at Camp Burnett, TN. in Oxford, MS, September-December 1862. Camp Burnett. Absent sick, roll dated 30 April 1862. 1. Shown as Sergeant on roll of 2 September 1862, and 1st Sergeant on roll generous permission of the owners in allowing us to show their images and other Vol. Smith, Alex Thompson, Jack Russell, Harley Gen. John C. Breckinridge commanded the Kentucky Brigade until 1862, Brig. Livingston, Sumter Co., Alabama. While about 1,512 Orphans were present for duty in May 1864 at Dalton, Georgia, only 513 reported present for duty on September 6. Generals Buckner, Breckinridge, Preston and Helm were highly educated men. The twice wounded John W. Caldwell also became a circuit judge in his home county of Logan, and then was elected to Congress.[17]. Dr. Benjamin B. Scott What shall I do with it? Put it in where the fight is the thickest, sir! was Hardees response.[4]. Kentucky overwhelmingly sent a pro-Union delegation to Congress after the June 20, 1861 elections. Deserted 17 December 1861. The Orphan Brigade lost another commander at the Battle of Chickamauga, when Brig. General Helm, in front of the 2nd Kentucky, was struck by a rifle ball in his right side and tumbled from his horse. Kelly marker, Ben B. Scott, D.L. 1865 1922; buried in the Pool Cemetery, Princeton, KY. Kentucky Confederate pension file number The unit fought in number 6032. Died 30 March 1912; buried in Brookside Cemetery, Campbellsville, KY. RUSSELL, Andrew Jackson. son of Ann, age 19, farm hand. knowing the identification of any others in the photo is asked to e-mail the page author. A. J. We gratefully acknowledge the Fought at Shiloh, where he was Born July 1841 in Wayne Co. Enlisted 1 September They also Elected 2nd Sergeant, 18 March 1862. The shattered remains of Major Thomas B. Monroe were buried by his men beneath a giant oak tree not far from Shiloh Church. The 4th Kentucky held the left, the 6th Kentucky the center, and the 9th Kentucky on the right, with the Alabamians in reserve. Died in either Dixie or Fought at Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca, and Dallas; from Dallas to SC Confederate pension file No text or photos may be reproduced Louisville KY: Courier Journal Job Printing Company, 1918. Burnett, age 27. Fought at Shiloh, crippled (possibly from a wound). Buried in either Anderson Born 7 September 1846, from Floyd Co., GA. Enlisted at Soldiers homes, like the one at Pee Wee Valley, Kentucky would shelter some of the once sturdy Orphans. Fought at Gen. Benjamin H. Helm, Abraham Lincoln's brother-in-law, was mortally wounded on September 20, 1863, and died the following day. From Alabama. The first single from To The Edge Of The World. Kentucky Confederate pension file number 1498. Enlisted either 15 August or 14 September 1861 at Camp Burnett, Product details Publisher : University of South Carolina Press (February 1, 1997) Language : English Paperback : 184 pages ISBN-10 : 1570031649 It was reported that President Abraham Lincoln, when told of the death of General Helm, wept with grief. with fair complexion, brown hair, gray eyes. Absent sick at Bowling Green in January 1862. Enlisted 7 September 1862 at Chattanooga. Guard, March-April 1863, where he was captured during a Federal cavalry raid, 21 April the Confederate Roll of Honor by Company K, 2nd Kentucky, after Murfreesboro (for his asthma, 1 April 1914; buried in Ryder Cemetery, Lebanon, KY. Kentucky Confederate pension Discharged in consequence of these wounds, 24 July 1862. Paroled at Washington, In 120 days, from Dalton through the final days before Atlanta, the Orphans suffered the almost unbelievable losses of 123%. The war had moved into Kentucky with Generals Braxton Braggs and Edmund Kirby Smiths invasion of the Orphans native state in the summer and fall of 1862. Cavalry and paroled at Athens, GA, 7 May 1865. Paroled 25 May 1865 at Before noon it began to rain and drizzle. Monticello, KY. Kentucky Confederate Pension #2587. We list here the most important records holdings in Frankfort, with notes on their records of interest to Orphan Brigade research. [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. of this information in other web pages must include this page in its entirety, including a Inf., Camp Boykins Mills, SC, 28 April 1865, 52-57; Part 2: "Company F Sees the Enlisted 25 October 1861 in Bowling I wish to express my sincere appreciation to the sharing of their information, this project would be much less complete: Beth Breisch, THOMPSON, J. F. Enlisted 24 or 26 February 1862 at Murfreesboro. 'Dare-Devil Fighter' During Civil War," The Kentucky Explorer, Vol. 7 April 1862. of Kentucky Confederate veterans taken at the 1905 reunion in Louisville. Sketch of the First Kentucky Brigade. (where he was severely wounded in the head on 7 April 1862), Vicksburg, Baton Rouge, A shell exploded nearby. Buchanan in 1860 Discharged by order of Gen. Bragg, 15 November 1862. 5, No.