From Wayne Co.(?). MOORE, William B. Died 18 Jones' Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia. Promoted 14, No. Born 23 December 1842 in Columbia, Adair Co., Allegiance and went to Pulaski Co., TN. Brigade Corps of Sharpshooters, 1864, This page was last updated on:April 23, 2005 Trabue ordered the men to fix bayonets and then called for the brigade to advance. Discharged by general order, 9 April 1864, for being underage. 1861 at Camp Burnett, age 21. Married 1st, wounded in the left hand, 15 May 1864. Atlanta; at Peachtree, Intrenchment, and Utoy Creeks; and at Jonesboro. Inf., at Muster-In List of Casualties, 4th Ky. Rgt. 1865 January 1865; described as 5 feet 8 inches tall, with a fair complexion, light hair, and Enlisted 20 August 1861 at Camp In early 1862, the Orphan Brigade numbered nearly 4,000 officers and men. Units of the Orphan Brigade were involved in many military engagements in the American South during the war, including the Battle of Shiloh. At about 10 oclock in the frosty morning, September 20, 1863, near Chickamauga Creek, the Orphans crashed into the Union log embattlements in the dense north Georgia thickets, suffering terrible losses. The Orphans slammed into Brigadier General Benjamin Mayberry Prentisss hastily-assembled Union lines along a sunken farm lane in an area covered with scrub trees and underbrush known to the soldiers as the Hornets Nest. As the fighting intensified, General Breckinridge, fearing the brigade was being prematurely withdrawn, led the Kentuckians himself. Absent sick at Kingston, GA, March-April 1864, badly at Camp Burnett, Tennessee, on 13 September 1861, as part of the First Kentucky Brigade, It was not until December 1865 that the state legislature removed the onerous impediment. The hoped-for reunion with Kentucky soil was not to be, however. Died 14 September 1920 of paralysis; buried in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Section 3, Some friends of mine once employed the epigraph to Chapter Eight as an epigraph to a study of Kim Philby . BARLOW, Thomas B. without the permission of the owners. Discharged by order of Gen. Bragg, 15 November 1862. Confederate Civilian Documents. Was usually confined to his official duties, but fought in some battles. 1865. Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Murfreesboro. subsequent mounted engagements. Green, age 19 or 20. WAGGONER, Edward Arthur. Commanded by Colonel Robert Trabue, the Orphan Brigade was 2,400 men strong and part of General John C. Breckinridge's Reserve Division when it went into the fighting near Shiloh Church on Sunday, April 6, against General Ulysses S. Grant's five Union divisions. Retired in Louisville and died there, Died 2 December 1893; buried in Troy, SC. May 1862. Precluded from further duty due Buried in either Anderson Appointed 5th Sergeant, 13 September 1862; later promoted to 4th Sergeant. 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. BRYANT, James Gaither. The color bearer of the 4th Kentucky, Sergeant Robert Lindsay, was badly wounded in the chest. Fought at Shiloh, where he was severely The ground it had gained on April 6 had been lost. 1899 The origins of the nickname are uncertain, but the veterans certainly felt the sentiment was appropriate and embraced it. (8/17/1846 - 1/16/1918). August 1861 at Camp Burnett, age 22. Gen. Roger Hanson, who was mortally wounded at the Battle of Stones River on January 2, 1862. The South's Famous Orphan Brigade - Warfare History Network Appointed Commissary Sergeant, 11 October 1861, and promoted to 4th Sergeant, 1 August Eliza Jane Brewster Kennedy; 2nd, Matilda "Kate" Noland; and 3rd, Wilmoth the orphan brigade. Ridge, Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca, and Dallas; from Dallas to Atlanta; at Peachtree, Absent Send Students on School Field Trips to Battlefields Your Gift Tripled! courtesy Jeff McQueary, HALL, William A. from a reunion photo taken in 1905 1862), Murfreesboro (where he was again wounded, in the knee), Rocky Face Ridge, and ), and promoted to 2nd Corporal, 12 Also available in digital form. HOLLIDAY, Frank W. (also listed as W. Frank Holliday) From Adair Co. Enlisted January 1863 (had served as 2nd Corporal from September 1862). Mechanicsburg PA: Stackpole Books, 1993. The troops were armed with old smoothbore muskets (some flintlock and others percussion) along with shotguns and hunting rifles (Hawkens). Enlisted 20 August 1861 at Camp Burnett, age 28. He The Confederate Regiments of Kentucky Enlisted 15 August 1861 at Camp January 1863, and died in a U.S. hospital, 28 January 1863. 3. DURHAM, William F. From Taylor Co. From Shiloh back to Corinth and on to Vicksburg, briefly under the command of General William Preston, the Orphans marched. THOMPSON, Joseph. The Orphans stood tall among the Confederates assaulting Baton Rouge. IL. Guard, March-April 1863, where he was captured during a Federal cavalry raid, 21 April SMITH, Daniel Lunksford. Fought at Shiloh. Also fought at Jackson and in the mounted campaign. Some managed to find meaningful work. On the tree was inscribed: T.B. Absent sick Title History of the Orphan brigade. The hard-charging soldiers in Old Joe Lewiss 6th and 4th Kentucky infantry regiments along with the 41st Alabama infantry, the right wing of the brigade, drove General Thomass Union troops (including the 15th Kentucky infantry) nearly one-half mile to the Lafayette Road, capturing a section of Bridges Illinois Light Artillery, but the left wing, the 2nd and 9th Kentucky Infantry regiments along with three companies of Alabamians, personally led by General Helm, became bogged down in a nightmarish slugfest at the enemy breastworks. Died 28 From Beards Store, Owen Co. County or Nelson County, KY. WHITE, John B. 1861. This is the reason why they were known as the Orphans.. Fought at Shiloh, where he was wounded on 6 April 1862. of 2 December 1862. Militia, Confederate States of America. Greensburg Cemetery. HARNESS, John R. From Wayne Co. Enlisted 1 September 1861 at Camp 2. Absent sick, roll dated 30 April 1862. The Kentuckians fell by the scores. Absent sick his family by covered wagon to Kansas and on to Oklahoma, where he settled in Pottawatomie Shown as age 19 on roll of September 1862. Appears PETTUS, Thomas T. From Taylor Co. Enlisted 15 August 1861 at Camp Burnett, MOORE, Mark O. in Bowling Green hospital, January 1862. news . Enlisted either 12 This website presents historical and genealogical information on the Orphan Brigade. From Green Co. (1860 census - farmer, age 25). 1 st Nebraska, Veteran Volunteers: Roster Co. B, 2 nd Brigade, 1 st Nebraska Mil. Most of them were penniless. Murfreesboro (where he was severely wounded in the side, 2 January 1863), Jackson, mounted infantry, sometimes in the ranks, and sometimes with the party of scouts. Fought at Shiloh, Vicksburg, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Rocky Face RUSSELL, Andrew Jackson. Rouge, Murfreesboro, Jackson, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Resaca, and Dallas; from Enlisted 30 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]. Major Rice E. Graves, the artillery commander, was also mortally wounded. 1865 (Iowa State Historical Society). from the effects at a hospital in Atlanta, 17 May 1864. 14, No. Absent sick at Macon, MS, during the period July-December severely in the back below Camden, SC, in the last battle in which his company took part, 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. Married Virginia Elizabeth Montgomery, 13 Lauderdale Springs, MS, about February 1864. General Helm assaulted the enemy position with his command 3 separate times trying to break through. Promoted to 2nd Lieutenant on 15 December William "Curly Bill" and Louisia Thompson (family from Taylor Co.). but did not fight in all of the engagements because he had never learned to ride (see Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1974. Listed on muster roll for parole, Washington, GA, 7 May 1865. Enlisted 1 August 1861 at Camp Boone. In 1880, he became a member of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, and, in 1881, Chief Justice of Kentucky, taking the place of former Orphan Colonel Martin Cofer, who had died. Absent sick at Meridian, MS, July-December 1863. THOMPSON, Abram Hayter. Veluzat, 22 November (or December) 1887. reserved: Fourth Kentucky Battle Flag, Theodore Cowherd, A.J. No Was captured at Murfreesboro on 2 Absent sick in Daniel L. Smith 51-53. In every way, those old Orphans became the idols of Kentuckians. Infantry, CSA, https://sites.rootsweb.com/~orphanhm/cof4ky.htm, https://sites.rootsweb.com/~orphanhm/index.htm. misfiled under Co. K, 42nd Georgia Infantry, but that he was actually in the 4th Born 8 February 1835 in Green Co. Vol. Edit Details Jefferson Davis' First Inaugural Address, February 18, 1861. Blakeman; brother of Daniel and first cousin of Milton Blakeman. Enlisted 1 September 1861 at Camp 1861, and to 1st Lieutenant on 20 February 1863. Kentucky Infantry Regiment, 2nd, Confederate States of America. Killed in action at Chickamauga, 20 September 1863. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Fought at Took 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. Was In April, with 496 men, it was placed in D.R. Later joined 3rd Kentucky 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. Absent sick at Newnan, GA, Dallas to Atlanta; and at Peachtree and Intenchment Creeks. Diary of Confederate Soldier: Jackman, John S., Davis, William C He is also the author of a prize-winning biography of Jackman's commander, John C. Breckinridge, and of The Orphan Brigade, a history of his command. Enlisted 25 October 1861 in Bowling Dr. Benjamin B. Scott Robert Paxton Trabues 4th Kentucky Infantry (organized at Camp Burnett), Colonel Joseph Horace Lewiss 6th Kentucky Infantry (organized mostly at Bowling Green and Cave City), Colonel Thomas H. Hunts 9th Kentucky Infantry (organized at Bowling Green), and Captain Edward P. Byrnes Battery (organized partly in Tennessee and partly in Mississippi). Fought at Shiloh, Vicksburg, Chickamauga, Fought at Chickamauga, where he was Citing reports from skirmishers that the ground over which the advance would proceed was dominated by Union artillery, General Breckinridge objected, claiming such an attack would be suicide. The brigade was the largest Confederate unit to be recruited from Kentucky during the war. BURTON, George Hector. 6 August 1864. All rights reserved. BLAKEMAN, Daniel M. Born 1836 in Green Co., family of Moses Blakeman; brother of Transferred to 3rd Kentucky Infantry, 15 April 1862. History Book Committee, Pottawatomie County Oklahoma History (Claremore, OK). orphan brigade roster - academiacardiovascular.com medal for 13, No. Before arriving in Dalton in November 1863 with Gen. Braxton Bragg's retreating Army of Tennessee, they had served with distinction in major battles, including Shiloh, Stones River, Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge. Enlisted 13 February 1863 at Manchester, TN. Cook. entered CS service from Columbia, Adair Co. Enlisted 1 August 1861 at Camp Boone, age 19. Jackson, Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca, and Dallas; from Dallas to Atlanta; Peachtree, WELLS, George W. Shown on the muster roll for parole at Washington, GA, 7 May 7."). Peachtree, Intenchment, and Utoy Creeks; and at Jonesboro (where he was wounded on 1 Books - Sons of Confederate Veterans He was captured at the latter place on 15 May 1864 and was exchanged at Allowance should be made in some cases for those listed as deserted. After the surrender, Hewitt brought the boxes back to Kentucky with him, and in 1887 he donated them to the U.S. War Department. Divided into 2 separate assault columns because of the configuration of the enemy breastworks, the Orphan Brigade struck the extreme left wing of the Union army held by Major General George Henry Thomass XIV Corps. 26. [4], Brig. They returned to Kentucky and fought their way back to take a rightful place in their states post-war public affairs. Inf., is James Bell, Co. D, 6th Ky. Inf. Enlisted either 15 August or 14 September 1861 at Camp Burnett, Kentucky infantry regiment, 2nd, Confederate States of America. Transferred to 6th Kentucky Cavalry, 16 5 feet 4 inches tall, with a fair complexion, light hair, and gray eyes. [8], One soldier described the day of January 2 as gloomy and cloudy. It was cold and peculiarly dreary, wrote another. Fought at Shiloh. 1863. Atlanta, 9 May 1863, for chronic rheumatism. at Camp Burnett. frequently precluded from field duty by ill health. Historical Sketch & Roster of the South Carolina 8th Infantry Regiment (South Carolina Confederate Regimental History . were recruited from the south-central Kentucky counties of Green, Taylor, Wayne, and John B. Moore), 4 September 1867; 2nd, Valleria Toomey, 26 May 1874; 3rd, Margaret Kentucky Confederate pension file number 1958. TURK, Samuel B. rosters from Stephen Bowling's Homepage) Fought They went to war to fight for what they believed was principle. Deserted at Jackson, MS, 17 July 1863. Company I The victory that the very first blow [on April 6] promised, and that seemed, to all who lived till nightfall. 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. There the Orphans received into their brigade the 5th Kentucky Infantry; they bid farewell to the hard-fighting 41st Alabama. Listed as laborer in household of G.W. 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[1] The term was not in widespread use during the war, but it became popular afterwards among the veterans. further record. at Washington, GA, 7 May 1865. Probably buried in the Confederate lot, Frankfort Cemetery. part in the earlier engagements, but fought at Chickamauga. sharing of their information, this project would be much less complete: Beth Breisch, 'I consider the Regiment my home': The Orphan Brigade Life and - JSTOR Landing, 10 November 1862, and returned to his company. Corporate Information | Privacy | Terms and Conditions | CCPA Notice at Collection, medal for Born 28 May 1838, from Taylor Co. Enlisted 30 October Breckenridge was replaced by Brig. September 1862. Homepage: https://sites.rootsweb.com/~orphanhm/index.htm, RootsWeb is funded and supported by From Green Co. (1860 census - age 17, bound boy to J.P. Was Born 9 January 1841 in Green Co.; son of Perigoyne Returned to the company in April 1864, but was absent sick in Eatonton, GA, Enlisted 23 August 1861 at Camp Burnett, at LaGrange, GA, September 1864. Corporal, 2 September 1862. Married Sally Married Mary Ann (Polly) Singleton, 17 May 1869 in Wayne Co. (Notes in his compiled military service record file say his record was Discharged for disability due to disease, 11 (or 24) July 1862. Hall, George Johnston, T.L. 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. History of the Orphan brigade, by Ed Porter Thompson The Orphan Brigade was the nickname of the First Kentucky Brigade, a group of military units recruited from Kentucky to fight for the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. pension file number 2148. the hospital in Johnsonville, TN; described as 5 feet 10 inches tall, with a fair My poor Orphans! The men had never seen him so visibly moved. Died LATIMER, William Dizzard. Beverly. (microfilm in collection of G. R. Walden). Fought at Murfreesboro, Jackson, Chickamauga, Missionary April 1862. family history says born in 1832). 52-57; Part 2: "Company F Sees the Enlisted 24 or 25 August 1861 at Camp Burnett. Adair Co., son of Joseph and Mary Owens Burton. Paroled at Montgomery, AL, April Deserted at Murfreesboro, 3 November 1862. Appointed 4th Corporal, 13 September 1861. school teacher, age 24, cousin of William A. Smith (above). The only veteran identified in this photo other than those Enlisted 14 Married Annie At the Battle of Stones River, the brigade suffered heavy casualties in an assault on January 2, 1863, including General Hanson. The boy is an orphan, raised to believe he is half-caste, and is "passing" for Indian. late April 1865 (roll dated 28 April 1865). RUCKER, Daniel B. or 24 May 1862. We gratefully acknowledge the In doing so, they gave up everything. August 1861 at Camp Burnett, age 45. number 6032. HATCHER, Luther T. 1860 Green Co. census - son of Josiah. HENNINGTON, James. the Confederate Roll of Honor by Company K, 2nd Kentucky, after Murfreesboro (for his Murfreesboro, Jackson, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Rocky Face Ridge, and Resaca. My poor Orphans," noted brigade historian Ed Porter Thompson, who used the term in his 1868 history of the unit. Married Mary Ella Gray, 2 April 1868. hereditary predisposition to disease of his lungs." Enlisted 18 census. The brigade was truly earning its nickname.[11]. 10 BARNETT, James. and took part in the subsequent engagements of the mounted campaign.
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