Probably buried in the Confederate lot, Frankfort Cemetery. 52-57; Part 2: "Company F Sees the Cemetery, Nashville. Listed as laborer in household of G.W. Daniel L. Smith 1860 Green Co. census - merchant in business with John Barnett. Lieutenant on 15 December 1861, and to Captain on 17 February 1863. HALL, Ambrose Jackson. Sick at Bowling Green, January 1862. Enlisted 15 August 1861 at Camp Burnett, age 30. Surgeon in February 1862, and served as such at Shiloh and Baton sick, September-December 1862, January 1863, October 1863, and October 1864. All rights reserved. Such indictments in areas like Breathitt County in the eastern Kentucky Mountains precipitated some of the feuds among families which lasted for generations. Married 1st, Eliza Jane Moore (sister of Dallas to Atlanta; and at Peachtree and Intenchment Creeks. [1] The term was not in widespread use during the war, but it became popular afterwards among the veterans. Native of Ireland. Instead, General Braggs army withdrew from Kentucky in mid-October after the bloody fighting at Perryville on October 8, 1862, and the Orphans marched to join General Braggs Army of the Tennessee as it returned to Murfreesboro, Tennessee. From Wayne Co., KY. Enlisted 1 November 1862 at In all, the Orphan Brigade lost 844 men out of the 2,400 who entered the battle at Shiloh. Enlisted 20 August 1861 at Camp Burnett, age 28. Elected 4th Sergeant, 13 September 1861. From Greensburg. Born 28 May 1827 in Lawrence Co., alternate spellings shown where known. From Green Co., 23-year-old farmer in 1860 census. Fought at (all used by permission). Fought at Baton Rouge, Murfreesboro, Jackson, Chickamauga, ATKINS, Joseph Alexander. The Majority of our funds go directly to Preservation and Education. [9], Up, my men, and charge! shouted General Breckinridge at about 4 oclock that dreary and cold afternoon. History of the First Kentucky Brigade. Died at Nashville, 10 November 1861. KY. Enlisted 15 August 1861 at Camp Burnett. service, October 1864. Enlisted 20 August 1861 at Camp The name came from how the Confederacy viewed its soldiers from Kentucky (which remained neutral in the Union, though half the state seceded and formed the Confederate government of Kentucky, was claimed by the Confederacy, and was represented by a star in both countries' flags and had representation in both governments). Had served a year in Wheats Fought at Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Absent Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2002. Fought at Shiloh, Army. Only a week before the Battle of Shiloh, every regiment except the 9th Kentucky was issued a supply of Enfield rifles imported from England (the 9th armed themselves with Enfields captured during the battle). Shiloh, Vicksburg, Murfreesboro, Jackson, and Chickamauga. 1860 census. 2 (Winter 1990), pp. Shauff. Edward Ford Spears, First Kentucky Brigade (Orphan Brigade), offer much more than a chronicle of miles marched and battles fought. The Orphans never stepped foot on their native soil. Promoted to 3rd Corporal, 15 December 1862. No of Company F. ADAIR, John Alexander. PRICE, Benjamin. laborer). WRIGHT, George W. Enlisted 14 September 1861 at Camp Burnett, age 30. Deserted at Corinth, MS, 7 April 1862. Co., 17 May 1877; buried in the Greensburg Cemetery. Company A The counties from which they hailed were located mostly in the rich farming belts of Kentucky. The ground it had gained on April 6 had been lost. Olivet Daniel Blakeman and Grave of Pvt. Died of disease in MS, 10 January 1863 The 6th Kentucky Infantry numbered only 74. They would have to pass in front of the Union guns on their left without any protection at all. He was carried from the battlefield. Incoming shells would explode within the Orphans ranks, blowing 10 or more men to the ground at one time. Fought at Chickamauga, where he was Promoted to 1st Glasgow, KY, cemetery. in Oxford, MS, September-December 1862. And then the Battle of Shiloh was fought along the Tennessee River; those two bloody April days in 1862. 13, No. Absent sick in Married Martha Anna Jeter. URL: https://sites.rootsweb.com/~orphanhm/rosters.htm, Geoff Walden: enfield577 (at) live.com February 1863 - October 1864. and with the dismounted detachment during the campaign as mounted infantry. Thompson, Edward Porter. Inf., at Muster-In courtesy Marsha Smith-Hamilton, via Steve Menefee. His widow married William A. Smith. From Wayne Co. Enlisted 14 August 1861 at Camp Burnett, Moved HOME The Orphan Brigade The Orphan Brigade Street Address City, State, Zip Phone Number Soundtrack To A Ghost Story Your Custom Text Here The Orphan Brigade TOUR DATES THE FILM STORE VIDEO PHOTOS CONTACT The Orphan Brigade - Banshee [OFFICIAL VIDEO] Watch on The Official Music Video for BANSHEE. Enlisted 1 August 1861 at Camp Chickamauga. Fought at Shiloh, where he was wounded and captured, 7 April 1862. Deserted 13 December 1862 or 2 January 1863. courtesy Dave Hoffman. pay as Musician. Absent sick Married Sally Was Gen. Roger Hanson, who was mortally wounded at the Battle of Stones River on January 2, 1862. By the end of the war, Kentucky had raised 55 Union infantry regiments and numerous infantry and Home Guard battalions, 17 Union cavalry regiments, and 5 batteries of Union artillery from every geographic region of the Commonwealth, including the rich lands of the Bluegrass. Vicksburg, Baton Rouge, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Rocky Face Ridge, Son of Elhannon Winchester Daffron and Fought at Shiloh. Mortally wounded at Murfreesboro, 2 Infantry, CSA," Green County Review; Part 1: "The Die Is Cast," Society). Fought in the campaign as mounted infantry. Spellings are shown as they appear on period muster rolls and rosters, with SKAGGS, John Henry. Ridge, and Resaca. Born 9 January 1841 in Green Co.; son of Perigoyne Stay up-to-date on the American Battlefield Trust's battlefield preservation efforts, travel tips, upcoming events, history content and more. Served in the McMinnville Johnny Green of the Orphan Brigade. complexion, dark hair, and hazel eyes. Appears in photo Murfreesboro, Jackson, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca (where he The men were being slaughtered. HOLLIDAY, Frank W. (also listed as W. Frank Holliday) From Adair Co. Enlisted The 4th Kentucky Infantry was organized on September 13, 1861, at Camp Burnett in Montgomery, Tennessee, under the command of Colonel Robert P. Trabue. Took the Oath of Allegiance and enlisted in the US Army for frontier The 4th Kentucky held the left, the 6th Kentucky the center, and the 9th Kentucky on the right, with the Alabamians in reserve. Born 2 September 1840 in Tazewell Co., VA; entered CS DURHAM, Robert P. From Taylor Co. Enlisted 15 August 1861 at Camp Burnett, History Book Committee, Pottawatomie County Oklahoma History (Claremore, OK). Brewer, farmer). Creek (Atlanta), 22 July 1864, and sent to Camp Chase prison. List of Casualties, 4th Ky. Rgt. Married (1st wife) Nancy Jane Pace, 16 September 1856; (2d wife) Mary from a cdv in the author's collection. Died in Louisville of cardiac Graduated from the University of Louisville Medical School in 1871, and practiced Enlisted 14 It was then converted to mounted infantry, and opposed Sherman's March to Murfreesboro, Jackson, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca, and GA, 7 May 1865. From Green Co. Enlisted 12 or 14 September 1861 at Their backgrounds are particularly remarkable when one recognizes that few Kentuckians then had any formal education at all. The entire 2nd Kentucky Infantry numbered only 69 officers and men in September. 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. Elected 3rd Lieutenant / Bvt. 1 (Frankfort, 1915), pp. Madison and Liticia Williams Smith (first cousin of Harley T., Samuel W., and William L. Shiloh, where he was severely wounded in the head on 6 April 1862. Elected 1st Lieutenant on 14 September 1861. Information from descendants and other family members. Married Francis "Fanny" Adams in 1878, and moved (His father was an Irish soldier and his mother, we learn, a white camp follower.) Chilton Co., AL, 23 April 1897. Amanda Decker, of Wayne Co. (see above entry). September 1866. Only slightly engaged against Major General William Starke Rosecranss Union Army of the Cumberland near what was called the Round Forest on Tuesday, December 30, 1862, Breckinridges division and the Orphans were re-positioned on the far right flank of Braggs army. Every purchase supports the mission. As the Orphans fought their way farther from Kentucky, they watched the Confederacys western front crumble. Born 1 January 1844 in Taylor Co., MOORE, William B. Absent Reportedly hanged by a lynch mob for molesting a woman in Wahalak, MS, June 1884. Old Joe Lewis was elected to the state legislature, and then served three terms in Congress. Killed in action at Shiloh, 7 April 1862. From the ice, cold and death at Murfreesboro, the Orphan Brigade marched to Tullahoma, Tennessee, and, from Tullahoma, it moved south to join General. Army. to History of Company F, 4th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, CSA, URL: https://sites.rootsweb.com/~orphanhm/cof4ky.htm, Geoff Walden: enfield577 (at) live.com Born 16 November 1842 in Wayne Co., family of Michael and Group 109 (microfilm M319, Rolls 96-105). The men, beneath their blue, Hardee battle flags, bearing silver discs and hand-painted battle honors, and under a hail of gunfire, negotiated a swollen pond, then crossed the undulating fields alongside the shallow, frozen Stones River, delivering volleys of rifle fire at General Crittendens blue columns which included the 8th, 9th, 11th, 21st and 23rd Kentucky (Union) infantry regiments. He had been wounded at the head of his fine regiment twice before, at Shiloh and Murfreesboro. BRYANT, James Gaither. generous permission of the owners in allowing us to show their images and other Fought at Shiloh, Vicksburg, Married Mary J. Harper, 14 July 1867. . Born 27 March 1832; from Taylor Co.; son of George Served as part of the The field officers were Colonel Thomas H. Taylor, Lieutenant Colonels Edward Crossland and William P. Johnston, and Major Benjamin Anderson. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, Confederate Volunteers, War On the first day at Shiloh, the brigade lost 75 killed and 350 wounded. ); first cousin of Daniel and Harley Smith. Deserted at Murfreesboro, 3 CSA Units: 39: 1st Kentucky Brigade, CSA - The Orphan Brigade : 1st Kentucky Brigade, CSA - The Orphan Brigade - Rosters 1st Kentucky Brigade, CSA - The Orphan Brigade - History 1st Kentucky Brigade, CSA - Orphan Brigade Kinfolk Association 1st Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, Company E, CSA - Reenactors Mechanicsburg PA: Stackpole Books, 1993. courtesy Johnny Dodd, their gt-gt grandson, Harley Smith's grave In the end, the Orphans left behind a magnificent legacy, one never to be repeated in Kentucky. Harris, 4 November 1869, in Lebanon. Breckinridgewho vehemently disputed the order to charge with the army's commander, General Braxton Braggrode among the survivors, crying out repeatedly, "My poor Orphans! Settled in Lebanon, where he worked as an accountant most of the major battles of the Army of Tennessee, from Shiloh through the Atlanta Burnett, age 21. Sign up for our quarterly email series highlighting the environmental benefits of battlefield preservation. senility and vesicular calculus; buried in the McLoud Cemetery. On the tree was inscribed: T.B. Was captured at Intrenchment Faint from loss of blood, he finally handed the colors to a nearby private who was instantly killed. Fought at Shiloh, Vicksburg, Baton Rouge, Murfreesboro, Green. Fought with this company at Shiloh (where he was wounded). They came from counties along the Tennessee borderLogan, Simpson and Allenand they came from counties along the Ohio RiverUnion, Henderson and Davies. Not far down the line, Colonel John Curd Wickliffe, commander of the Confederate 7th Kentucky infantry and cousin to Colonel Prestons wife, was mortally wounded. to 4th Corporal, 1 October 1864. Point Lookout, February 1865. 1 st Nebraska, Veteran Volunteers: Roster Co. B, 2 nd Brigade, 1 st Nebraska Mil. From Green Co. (1860 census - age 15). BARKER, Hugh B. From St. Louis, MO. 18 September 1861 at Camp Burnett, age 20. NICHOLS, Joseph. In the end, they were defeated in war, but not in heart. It will be noted that there are several glaring differences between the age given at SMITH, Daniel Lunksford. NELSON, James W. Born 5 February 1831, from Adair Co. Enlisted 17 August 1861 Killed in action at Shiloh, 7 April 1862. 1863. Captured at Centre College, Transylvania Law School, Harvard Law School, Yale College, Princeton College, and the United States Military Academy were the schools those four commanders attended. SC Confederate pension file Died in Federal captivity. Beverly. Indeed, in the years after the war, Orphan Brigade veterans dominated Kentucky politics. JOHNSTON, George Edwards. Intrenchment, and Utoy Creeks; Jonesboro, and in the mounted campaign. Vol. age 19. (also spelled Ghent, Gentt) From New Orleans, LA. With Kentucky occupied by Union troops early in the war, prominent officers in the brigade learned of the confiscation of their lands and personal property by local courts and the harassment of their wives and children by provost marshals, not to mention warrants outstanding for their arrest. 170-173. enlistment, and the age based on census records or family data. Returned and reported absent sick at Newnan, GA, In April, with 496 men, it was placed in D.R. I wish to express my sincere appreciation to the October 1863 near Chattanooga. Geoff Walden, "Company F, Fourth Kentucky Volunteer 1861. Discharged for disability due to disease, 11 (or 24) July 1862. FS Library Book 976.9 M2d. Theseearly regiments, combined with others raised that fall at Bowling Green after it was named the rival Confederate capital, were organized into the First KentuckyBrigade. the hospital in Johnsonville, TN; described as 5 feet 10 inches tall, with a fair of Co. F, 4th Ky. (killed, wounded, died, captured, missing), Total permanent losses 75 (71%) Sick at Lauderdale Springs, MS, 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). sheriff of Taylor Co. from 1872-1874. Biography in Perrin, Battle, & By the end of the second day the Orphan Brigade had been decimated. file numbers 1877 and 2791. family medicine in Wayne Co. Died 1 September 1895; buried in the Kendrick Cemetery, near Within weeks of Abraham Lincolns election to the Presidency, South Carolina seceded from the Union. Took Another possible derivation for the name stems from the brigade's repeated loss of commander. Click here to see the complete Muster Roll for Parole, Co. F, 4th Kentucky Mounted Infantry, Washington, GA, 7 May STONE, Marshall Ney. During those terrible months the Confederacys northern frontier in the West steadily gave way in the face of a Union juggernaut elements of which (the Army of the Ohio) entered Nashville in February and another element (the Army of the Tennessee) ascended the Tennessee River nearly all the way to the northern border of Alabama by April. Kentucky infantry regiment, 2nd, Confederate States of America. Deserted at Oakland Station, KY, 23 January 1862. age 33. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1974. better known by its post-war name "Orphan Brigade." 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. All photos except the following also 1998, Geoffrey R. Walden; all rights Kentucky Confederate pension file number 1878. Slowly the Kentuckians gave way until they were out of range of the enemy guns. from a reunion photo taken in 1905 March 1862. Fought at 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. Buried in the Hartsville Cemetery. physician, son of John Scott). Nashville, January 1862. March 1862. 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. 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. 17-18. See January 1863. Its original commander was John C. Breckinridge, former United States Vice President, and Kentucky's former Senator, who was enormously popular with Kentuckians. Paroled Generals Buckner, Breckinridge, Preston and Helm were highly educated men. We list here the most important records holdings in Frankfort, with notes on their records of interest to Orphan Brigade research. Missionary Ridge; was placed in command of the Kentucky 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. Promoted to 3rd at Camp Burnett, Tennessee, on 13 September 1861, as part of the First Kentucky Brigade, severely in the back below Camden, SC, in the last battle in which his company took part, 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. Adair Co., son of Joseph and Mary Owens Burton. 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. William "Curly Bill" and Louisia Thompson (family from Taylor Co.). From Warren Co. Enlisted 1 September 1861 at Camp Burnett, age 18. STUBBS, William Frank. ); 1860 census - Burnett, age 23. Listed on muster roll for parole, Washington, GA, 7 May 1865. Killed at Chickamauga, 20 The Orphans represent the conquest of courage over timidity and sacrifice for the sake of a principle. the orphan brigade. Transferred to 2nd Kentucky Infantry, 2 December 1862. 1. to the edge of the world. 2nd Lieutenant, 1 April 1863. Double-quick, forward, march! yelled General Hanson. Died of Barnett-Marshall Cemetery, Green Co. SMITH, William Ambrose. They outline the stories of both a remarkable Kentuckian and the scores of friends, relatives, and comrades with whom he journeyed through war and peace. 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. The new legislature went so far as to make joining or supporting the Confederate Army a felony. The 1st Kentucky Artillery (also known as Cobb's Battery) was an artillery battery that was a member of the Orphan Brigade in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Milton and COFFEY, Andrew J. Sick in hospital in Bowling Green, January 1862. Brigadier General Benjamin Hardin Helm; lawyer; son of two-time governor of Kentucky, John Helm of Hardin and Nelson Counties in Kentucky; grandson of United States Senator from Kentucky, John Hardin (one of young Captain Abraham Lincolns commanders in the Black Hawk War in 1832); and husband to Emily Todd, half-sister to none other than Mary Todd Lincoln, the wife of President Lincoln; would lead the brigade twice and die in its heroic September 20, 1863 attacks at Chickamauga. They were given a bounty if they brought their own rifle. Veluzat, 22 November (or December) 1887. in list of inmates, Pewee Valley Confederate Home, 1912. Confederate Cemetery. Never mind this boys, yelled Breckinridge, press on. Charge them! he cried. Settled in Green Co. Died 26 June 1916 of cancer It was John C. Breckinridge, Old Breck, whom the Orphans idolized. Transferred to 3rd Kentucky Infantry, 15 April 1862. After organization and muster, the regiment moved north into Kentucky and camped at Bowling Green, where it remained until early 1862. Paroled at Washington, Also spelled Dafforn, Dafran, Dafford (also HARNESS, John R. From Wayne Co. Enlisted 1 September 1861 at Camp 12, No. 1861 at Camp Boone. BARNETT, John. Promoted to 2nd Lieutenant on 15 December DARNELL, William R. From Green Co. Enlisted 1 August 1861 at Camp Boone, age Deserted from hospital at Fought at Shiloh, where he was killed, 7 April 1862. Fought at Murfreesboro, where he was wounded on 2 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. Enlisted 13 August 1861 collection of Miss Mary Frances Russell. 1820-1824. Monroe, C.S.A., Killed April 7, 1862. Such was the last resting place of the former mayor of Lexington, Kentucky and former Kentucky secretary of state. Reduced to 4th Sergeant, 18 March 1862. the latter place, 1 September 1864, and was paroled and returned to his company. shortly after his return home by Union guerrillas William Ayres and Jesse Bell (Ayres was Smith, 1905 veterans photo The drums rolled. Lauderdale Springs, MS, August-December 1863. It was not until December 1865 that the state legislature removed the onerous impediment. : Roster Co. H, 2 nd Nebraska Cavalry Volunteers Official Roster, Nebraska Troops M. New Hampshire . Every member of Old Brecks staff fell in the melee from wounds or the loss of mounts. William C. Davis The Orphan Brigade, page 159, for confusion with Col. Joseph We gratefully acknowledge the This website presents historical and genealogical information on the Orphan Brigade. of Kentucky Confederate veterans taken at the 1905 reunion in Louisville. The Fourth Kentucky Volunteer Infantry was mustered into Confederate service at Camp Burnett, Tennessee, on 13 September 1861, as part of the First Kentucky Brigade, better known by its post-war name "Orphan Brigade." The unit fought in most of the major battles of the Army of Tennessee, from Shiloh through the Atlanta Campaign. Barnesville, GA, 10 September 1864. Appointed Commissary Sergeant, 11 October 1861, and promoted to 4th Sergeant, 1 August Enlisted 18 Green, age 19 or 20. Assigned to the dismounted Died of pneumonia at Burnsville, MS, 10 April 1862. Resaca, and Dallas; from Dallas to Atlanta; at Peachtree, Intrenchment, and Utoy Creeks;