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. The brigade was the largest Confederate unit to be recruited from Kentucky during the war. Its original commander was John C. Breckinridge, former United States vice president, and Kentucky's former senator, who was enormously popular with Kentuckians.
The OrphanBrigade was the nickname of the First Kentucky Brigade, a group of military units recruited from Kentucky to fight for the Confederate States...
Neighborhoods Apart, which produced the OrphanBrigade's (Hubbard's band) documentary and soundtrack, The OrphanBrigade: Soundtrack to a Ghost Story, which...
1895. They performed a well known Confederate funeral elegy of the OrphanBrigade by John Henry Weller (1842–1912) entitled "O Lay, Me Away With Boys...
States Army during the American Civil War. The commander of the famed "OrphanBrigade," he was mortally wounded at the Battle of Murfreesboro. He was nicknamed...
enlisted as M. Jerome Clarke in the 4th Kentucky Infantry, 1st Kentucky "Orphan" Brigade, Confederate States Army (CSA). While with the 4th Kentucky Clarke...
brigadier general, Helm commanded the 1st Kentucky Brigade, more commonly known as The OrphanBrigade. He died on the battlefield during the Battle of Chickamauga...
during their visit to the colony in 1901 Frank: unofficial mascot of the OrphanBrigade during the American Civil War Gander: the World War II mascot of the...
Camp Boone, Tennessee was located on Guthrie Road/ (Wilma Rudolph Boulevard) U.S. Route 79 near the Kentucky - Tennessee border at Clarksville, Montgomery...
John Hunt Morgan (June 1, 1825 – September 4, 1864) was a Confederate general in the American Civil War. In April 1862, he raised the 2nd Kentucky Cavalry...
check while the sound lasted. — Colonel Keller Anderson of Kentucky's OrphanBrigade It paragons description, that yell! How it starts deep and ends high...
Chattanooga". Diary of a Confederate Soldier: John S. Jackman of the OrphanBrigade. American Military History. Columbia, South Carolina: University of...
Hardin Helm of the First Kentucky Brigade, commonly known as the OrphanBrigade. He served with the First Kentucky Brigade until the end of the war. In May...
lost nearly one third of his Kentucky troops (Hanson's Brigade, also known as the OrphanBrigade because it could not return to Union-occupied Kentucky)...
Kentucky Infantry. He became a captain in the First Kentucky Brigade, also known as the OrphanBrigade when Company C was transferred in the spring of 1863....
seats. He personally financed many of the supply needs of Kentucky's OrphanBrigade. His work in negotiating prisoner exchanges for this unit led to his...
first proposed the idea of a monument for Davis during a reunion of the OrphanBrigade of the Confederate Army in 1907. Construction began in 1917 but stopped...
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