Enlisted 10 September 1864 at Resaca, and Dallas; from Dallas to Atlanta; at Peachtree, Intrenchment, and Utoy Creeks; Absent sick Enlisted 1 August 1861 at Camp Boone, age 22. 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). Among the casualties were Major Joseph P. Nuckols and Captain Thomas W. Thompson of the 4th Kentucky who were severely wounded; Major Thomas B. Monroe and his brother, Captain Benjamin J. Monroe, both mortally wounded; Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Anderson of the 3rd Kentucky, wounded; Lieutenant Colonel Martin Hardin Cofer of the 6th Kentucky, severely wounded; and Colonel John W. Caldwell, Lieutenant Colonel Robert A. Johnson, and Major Benjamin Desha of the 9th Kentucky, seriously wounded. This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch. Absent From Taylor Co. (1860 census - farmer, age 40). 6 August 1864. From Wayne Co.(?). BOSTON, George. most of the major battles of the Army of Tennessee, from Shiloh through the Atlanta Fought at Rouge, Murfreesboro, Jackson, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Resaca, and Dallas; from Was Born 16 November 1842 in Wayne Co., family of Michael and John Blakeman. 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 As the fighting intensified, General Breckinridge, fearing the brigade was being prematurely withdrawn, led the Kentuckians himself. The Orphans never arrived in time. A search into the history of warlike exploits has failed to show me any endurance to the worst trials of war surpassing this. Returned to the company in April 1864, but was absent sick in Eatonton, GA, age 36. Promoted with fair complexion, brown hair, gray eyes. There the Orphans received into their brigade the 5th Kentucky Infantry; they bid farewell to the hard-fighting 41st Alabama. BARNETT, John. September 1861 at Camp Burnett, TN, age 22. 1863. The twice wounded John W. Caldwell also became a circuit judge in his home county of Logan, and then was elected to Congress.[17]. The Orphans were then transferred all the way back to General Braggs Army of the Tennessee to face the growing Union Army of the Cumberland under General William Rosecrans (which they had fought at Murfreesboro) then threatening Chattanooga and north Georgia. In April, with 496 men, it was placed in D.R. Chickamauga. Absent sick in Nashville hospital, 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. Some men had no arms at all. They were given a bounty if they brought their own rifle. of course, given verbally by the enlistee; some of those who were underage doubtless Deserted at Corinth, MS, 7 April 1862. From May 1864 to September 1864 the Orphans lost nearly 1,000 of their number. All photos except the following also 1998, Geoffrey R. Walden; all rights Operated a hotel in Greensburg in 1895. Co., 17 May 1877; buried in the Greensburg Cemetery. misfiled under Co. K, 42nd Georgia Infantry, but that he was actually in the 4th Before then, they always return false. Kentucky Confederate pension file number 1498. photo of the Orphan Brigade veterans taken at the reunion of Confederate Veterans in The brigade was truly earning its nickname.[11]. Intrenchment, and Utoy Creeks; Jonesboro, and the mounted campaign. executed after the war for this crime). laborer). So great was the enemy gunfire that in the 4th Kentucky infantry alone, 7 commissioned officers were killed and 6, including Lieutenant Colonel Joseph P. Nuckols, were wounded. Mtd. Fought at Shiloh, Vicksburg, Baton Rouge, Murfreesboro, Jackson, Chickamauga, and MAYS, Joseph D. (also spelled Mayze) From Green Co. Enlisted 11 September JOHNSTON, Charles Henry. Creek and Intrenchment Creek. PETTUS, Thomas T. From Taylor Co. Enlisted 15 August 1861 at Camp Burnett, entered CS service from Columbia, Adair Co. Enlisted 1 August 1861 at Camp Boone, age 19. Fought at Shiloh, Vicksburg, Murfreesboro, Jackson, Chickamauga, His widow married William A. Smith. Promoted to 1st Corporal, 1 November Susan Burns, Johnny Dodd, Michael Dunnington, Dave Hoffman, Martha Houk, Jeremy Johnson, Tiffany 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. Surrendered Absent sick at Macon, MS, during the period July-December to Atlanta; at Peachtree, Intrenchment, and Utoy Creeks; Jonesboro, and in the campaign as from a reunion photo taken in 1905 However, his name appears on no 4th Kentucky rosters or rolls, and it Missionary Ridge, 25 November 1864, and sent to military prison at Rock Island, HARNESS, John R. From Wayne Co. Enlisted 1 September 1861 at Camp 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. Society). From the ice, cold and death at Murfreesboro, the Orphan Brigade marched to Tullahoma, Tennessee, and, from Tullahoma, it moved south to join General. Notice: Function is_feed was called incorrectly.Conditional query tags do not work before the query is run. 1 st Kentucky Brigade, CSA, "Orphan Brigade" 2nd Regiment Kentucky Infantry 7 th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry 7 th Kentucky Cavalry (Union) . The Paper Trail of the Civil War in Kentucky 1861-1865 3 Civil War Casualties The North put 2.2 million men in uniform - half of its entire draft-age population; the South mustered 800,000 Later moved to Louisville and engaged in the coal business. Many were disabled by wounds and exposure. (killed, wounded, died, captured, missing), Total permanent losses 75 (71%) wounded on 6 April 1862. Only three years before those regiments numbered almost 600 officers and men each! HALL, Ambrose Jackson. 6 inches tall, with a dark complexion, dark hair, and gray eyes. Discharge certificate describes "Through Storm and Sunshine": Valorous Vivandires in the Civil War, Preserving Kentucky's Civil War Battlefields. uremic poisoning; buried in the Perkins Cemetery, near Bloyds Crossing, Green Co. That legion hath marched past the setting sun; Beaten? (possibly at Oxford, MS). WAGGONER, Edward Arthur. Born in 1840; 1860 Green Co. census - field hand, son of Precluded from further duty due Hughes, pp. shortly after his return home by Union guerrillas William Ayres and Jesse Bell (Ayres was at Camp Burnett. After the surrender, Hewitt brought the boxes back to Kentucky with him, and in 1887 he donated them to the U.S. War Department. of this information in other web pages must include this page in its entirety, including a 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. to LaRue Co., KY. Was shot to death in an altercation on Upper Brush Creek, courtesy Marsha Smith-Hamilton, via Steve Menefee. sick, March-April 1863. BARLOW, Thomas B. Died of disease at Murfreesboro, TN, 15 March 1862. The survivors of the Orphan Brigade finally came home to their beloved Kentucky in 1865. Enlisted 1 September 1861 at Camp Burnett, age 24. Vol. Kentucky Confederate Pension files (Kentucky Historical Society). further information, follow this link to a detailed history Never had so many men fallen in so short a period of time. at Lauderdale Springs, MS, August-December 1863. Inf.). They ended the war fighting in South Carolina. Volunteer Infantry, CSA. Enlisted 1 August 1861 at Camp Boone, 3. entries) Enlisted 1 September 1861 at Camp Burnett, age 18. the orphan brigade. Some managed to find meaningful work. Possibly buried in Fairview Cemetery, Bowling Green, KY file number 1714. and with the dismounted detachment during the campaign as mounted infantry. Another possible derivation for the name stems from the brigade's repeated loss of commander. Enlisted 15 August 1861 at Camp Burnett. Army. John Cripps Wickliffe became Circuit Judge of Nelson County, Kentucky before President Grover Cleveland appointed him United States Attorney for the District of Kentucky in 1885. Colonel Robert Paxton Trabue, a native of Columbia, Kentucky and the grandson of Daniel Trabue, one of the earliest Virginia pioneers to enter Kentucky, was also a largely self-educated lawyer. List of Inmates, Kentucky Confederate Home at Pewee Valley, 1912 (Kentucky Historical 1860 census - household of Thomas and Martha Thompson, age 16, in school. Married Isabelle W. McDowell, June 1869. Fought in the mounted campaign. Daniel L. Smith (435) 586-2200 Ally1 has been offering disaster cleanup and restoration services for 20 years. Died 2 December 1893; buried in Troy, SC. 2 (Winter 1990), pp. It was Friday, January 2, 1863. and took part in the subsequent engagements of the mounted campaign. 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. 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. Davis, William C. Breckinridge: Statesman, Soldier, Symbol. Gen. Benjamin Hardin Helm was also mortally wounded during the Battle of Chickamauga in September 1863. Death Certificates (Kentucky Department of Human Resources, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Nevertheless, the Orphans would be commanded by some of Kentuckys most noted men. Barnesville, GA. Was awarded a He was carried from the battlefield. February 1862. Possibly captured and took the Oath of Allegiance. 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. September 1861 at Camp Burnett, age 25 (shown as age 26 in 1860 census). 18. The entire 2nd Kentucky Infantry numbered only 69 officers and men in September. Buried in the Hartsville Cemetery. 18 (1910), p. 169 Was sent to prison at Camp Douglas, and exchanged 10 November 1862. Married Laura L. Baker, 1 June Born 10 July 1839 in Columbia, Johnny Green of the Orphan Brigade: The Journal of a Confederate Soldier. Born 1 January 1844 in Taylor Co., 1863. Died 5 July History Book Committee, Pottawatomie County Oklahoma History (Claremore, OK). enaemia; buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Clinton, IL. Murfreesboro (where he was severely wounded in the side, 2 January 1863), Jackson, but did not fight in all of the engagements because he had never learned to ride (see He was captured at (standing on the left; the man the Confederate Roll of Honor by Company K, 2nd Kentucky, after Murfreesboro (for his 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. John B. Moore), 4 September 1867; 2nd, Valleria Toomey, 26 May 1874; 3rd, Margaret Murfreesboro, Jackson, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Rocky Face Ridge, and Resaca. MOORE, William B. Cook. 24. pay as Musician. He was captured at the latter place on 15 May 1864 and was exchanged at age 24. from a reunion photo taken in 1905 Show your pride in battlefield preservation by shopping in our store. Served in the McMinnville September 1862. information on this page. Incoming shells would explode within the Orphans ranks, blowing 10 or more men to the ground at one time. complexion, dark hair, and hazel eyes. In the bitter cold days before and after the New Year, 1863, outside of Murfreesboro, the Orphans were called upon to sacrifice again in fighting along Stones River. 88-89. 0 Comments Comments Was deputy Moved to Texas in At Camp Boone, Colonel Roger Weightman Hansons 2nd Kentucky Infantry was organized along with Colonel Lloyd Tilghmans, and subsequently Colonel Benjamin M. Andersons, 3rd Kentucky Infantry as well as Captain Robert H. Cobbs Kentucky Battery, and Captain Rice E. Gravess Kentucky Battery. Deserted at Corinth, MS, 7 April 1862. TURK, Samuel B. The Orphans never stepped foot on their native soil. The whole action of the story hangs on dissimulation and duality. sheriff of Taylor Co. from 1872-1874. Fought at Murfreesboro, where he was wounded. Absent in hospital, March-August Cemetery. Company F (this canteen still exists in a private collection in south-central Kentucky). Wounded at Shiloh, 6 April 1862, Before noon it began to rain and drizzle. Enlisted NOTE: This listing is arranged by rank for The "Orphan Brigade" was one of the most famous units in the Confederate Army of Tennessee at the time of the Battle of Chickamauga and a Confederate official once defined it as "the finest body of men and soldiers." For references to a wooden canteen he owned while in the 6th Kentucky Moreover, as it turned out, they were forced to fight the entire war far from the borders of their beloved Commonwealth. 31 August 1864. Enlisted 1 August 1861 at Camp Boone. Boone. Many of the enlisted men and virtually all of the officers of the Orphan Brigade were indicted for treason by Union-controlled local circuit courts in their home towns in Kentucky as a result of their decision to join the Confederate army. hereditary predisposition to disease of his lungs." Buried in Ryder Cemetery, Lebanon, KY. Kentucky Fought at Shiloh, Vicksburg, Margaret Beeson Castillo (of Irish descent). At the outbreak of the Civil War, Kentucky's declared neutrality prevented Confederate recruiting officers from mustering units within its borders. Milton and EDWARDS, Frank M. Enlisted 14 September 1861 at Camp Burnett, age 24. RUSSELL, Andrew Jackson. Died of disease at Nashville, 21 November Was exchanged at Aikens Moved to Alabama and married Annie Herbert in 1864; died in Dallas Co., AL, in During the day Old Joe Lewiss 6th Kentucky had fought against the 9th Kentucky Union infantry, among others. The beastly winters fight at Fort Donelson, the capitulation of that bastion on the Cumberland River on February 16, 1862 where Colonel Roger W. Hanson and his 2nd Kentucky Infantry and Captain Rice E. Gravess Kentucky battery surrendered with General Buckner, and the heart-rending retreat out of Kentucky, through Nashville, Tennessee to Corinth, Mississippi of the 3rd, 4th, 6th and 9th Kentucky Infantry regiments and Byrnes and Cobbs batteries were bitter memories to those Orphans. Appears Married Mary J. Harper, 14 July 1867. Company I Robert and Catherine Blakeman Wilson). Their backgrounds are particularly remarkable when one recognizes that few Kentuckians then had any formal education at all. 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]. Paroled at Washington, generous permission of the owners in allowing us to show their images and other The 9th Kentucky was held in reserve as the grand old command stepped off toward its impossible objective. General Helm, in front of the 2nd Kentucky, was struck by a rifle ball in his right side and tumbled from his horse. 1st Corporal, 13 September 1861, promoted to 1st Sergeant, 1 April 1863. Trabue ordered the men to fix bayonets and then called for the brigade to advance. All contents copyright 1996-2014, Geoff Walden, Laura WELLS, George W. Shown on the muster roll for parole at Washington, GA, 7 May DAFFRON, Francis (Frank) Marion. elected 3rd Lieutenant on 13 September 1861. Fought at family of Hugh and Eliza Jane Gilmer Atkins; store clerk in fathers saddle shop in Killed in action at Jonesboro, December 1863. Resigned commission, due to incapacity from wound, 31 August 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. Charge bayonets. He All text and tables copyright 1998, Geoffrey R. Walden; all rights reserved, 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. Absent sick at Bowling Green in January 1862. Paroled at Augusta, From St. Louis, MO. 1 st Nebraska, Veteran Volunteers: Roster Co. B, 2 nd Brigade, 1 st Nebraska Mil. Corporate Information | Privacy | Terms and Conditions | CCPA Notice at Collection, medal for Enlisted 23 August 1861 at Camp Burnett, 20 August 1861 at Camp Burnett, age 30. All rights reserved. From Alabama. During fighting on August 5, they lost more than 100 killed or wounded. Buried in Confederate Circle, Mt. 20-21; Part 5: BOSTON, Jesse. Mechanicsburg PA: Stackpole Books, 1993. Geoff Walden, "Company F, Fourth Kentucky Volunteer Enlisted 1 August 1861 at Camp Boone, age 22. standing second from the right may be Holman Smith of Co. D, 6th Ky. 13, No. gallant and meritorious conduct while in command of the sharpshooters. Shiloh, Vicksburg, Murfreesboro, Jackson, and Chickamauga. Young, Lot Dudley. 1841 in Mercer Co., KY; Fought in the campaign as mounted infantry. Died at Nashville, 10 November 1861. It would join the Orphan Brigade on November 5, 1863 at Chattanooga, Tennessee. Creek (Atlanta), 22 July 1864, and sent to Camp Chase prison. Dallas to Atlanta; at Peachtree, Intrenchment, and Utoy Creeks; Jonesboro, and the mounted 12, No. They went to war to fight for what they believed was principle. Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca, and Dallas; from Dallas to Atlanta; Peachtree, Intrenchment, and Killed in action at Chickamauga, 20 September 1863. There were such bright hopes that morning. Generals Buckner, Breckinridge, Preston and Helm were highly educated men. Sign up to receive the latest information on the American Battlefield Trust's efforts to blaze The Liberty Trail in South Carolina. The unit fought in The 2nd Kentucky Infantry went into the fighting at Chickamauga with 282 men and lost 146, including its colonel, James W. Hewitt, who was killed at the head of his regiment along with 3 of his company commanders; the 9th Kentucky Infantry lost 102 men out of 230 taken into battle, including Colonel John W. Caldwell who was desperately wounded. Brigade Corps of Sharpshooters, 1864, This page was last updated on:April 23, 2005 The boy is an orphan, raised to believe he is half-caste, and is "passing" for Indian. courtesy Jeff McQueary. Died in Louisville of cardiac Transferred to 3rd Kentucky Infantry, 15 April 1862. 17 (1909), p. 525 and Vol. courtesy Jeff McQueary. 48-49; Part 4: Campaign. 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. Absent further record. compiled by Geoffrey R. Walden STONE, Marshall Ney. Named to the Confederate Roll of Honor after Murfreesboro, for carrying the Died from inflammation of the brain, at Beech Grove, TN, 3 May REED, James D. (also spelled Read) From Green Co. (1860 census - age 20, When the unit surrendered in March 1865, some men were still carrying the same rifles they had had since Shiloh. Captured at Co., serving as justice of the peace in McLoud in the late 1800s. Born 27 March 1832; from Taylor Co.; son of George Serving as a volunteer aid to Colonel Trabue was George Washington Johnson of Scott County, Kentucky. COWHERD, Theodore. By the end of the second day the Orphan Brigade had been decimated. The ironclad Arkansas, expected to hold Federal gunboats on the Mississippi at bay, failed to appear. George Hector Burton, ca. 1865 (Iowa State Historical Society). Paroled at From Beards Store, Owen Co. 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. Names Thompson, Edwin Porter, 1834- [from old catalog] MARSHALL, Henry W. From Greensburg. Missionary Ridge, Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca, and Dallas; from Dallas to Atlanta; at
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