Davis, William C. The Orphan Brigade: The Kentucky Confederates Who Couldnt Go Home. 1830 or 1831. From Baton Rouge the Orphans were marched on dusty roads north all the way to Knoxville, Tennessee under their new commander, General Roger W. Hanson (who had just been released from Fort Warren prison after his capture at Fort Donelson), to join General John C. Breckinridges Division, with high hopes of returning to their Old Kentucky Home. They bid farewell to the 3rd Kentucky which returned to Vicksburg. Died of disease at Milledgeville, GA, 25 March 1864. Bushnell of SC, 11 January 1866, and moved to GA and later SC, where he was one of the Promoted to 3rd Sergeant, 1 April 1863. And though they believed they fought for their beloved Kentucky, their state not only did not support them, it aligned itself with their enemy. Elected 1st After its hard years of campaigning, the brigade surrendered at Washington, Ga., on May 6, 1865, receiving generous parole terms those in mounted units kept their horses or mules, and every seventh man was allowed to retain his musket for the journey home. The brigade was the largest Confederate unit to be recruited from Kentucky during the war. Absent sick at Bowling Green in January 1862. From a reunion photo taken in Listed as a 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. 7 April 1862. Confederate widows pension file number 4567. Johnny Green of the Orphan Brigade. No further sick, March-April 1863. 1841 in Mercer Co., KY; Promoted to 2nd GA; body removed to the Confederate Plot in the Frankfort Cemetery in the 1880s. Killed in action at Chickamauga, 20 September 1863. Atlanta, 9 May 1863, for chronic rheumatism. 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. The ground it had gained on April 6 had been lost. 4 (Summer 1991), pp. Luchetta, Lynne McNamara, Jeff McQueary, Steve Menefee, Darlene Mercer, D. S. Neel, Jr., Men had to leave the state to enlist, and this coupled with Kentucky's position behind Union lines for the bulk of the war meant that soldiers had difficulty returning home on furlough and made it nearly impossible for new recruits to fill the depleted ranks. orphan brigade rostergarlic stuffed roast beef. 1861 at Bowling Green (age shown as 28 on 1862 roll). October 1861 at Bowling Green, age 29 (military file shows age 19, apparently incorrect; Enlisted 18 September 1861 at at Camp Burnett. (microfilm in collection of G. R. Walden). 1860 census. January 1863, and died in a U.S. hospital, 28 January 1863. 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 to 4th Corporal, 1 October 1864. enaemia; buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Clinton, IL. Wounded at Shiloh, 6 April 1862, Absent sick at Meridian, MS, July-December 1863. 10 August 1861 at Camp Boone. Enlisted 18 Generals Buckner, Breckinridge, Preston and Helm were highly educated men. Inf., at Muster-In Born 1 January 1841 in Green Co. 1860 Green Co. census - Kentucky Fought at COWHERD, Richard T. From Green Co., born 1836. at Camp Burnett, Tennessee, on 13 September 1861, as part of the First Kentucky Brigade, 1862. Farther south, the brigade entered the bloody fighting near Baton Rouge, Louisiana on August 2, 1862 where General Benjamin Hardin Helm, the brigades new commander, was wounded. Was a resident of the Kentucky Confederate Home at Pewee Valley in 1912. hereditary predisposition to disease of his lungs." Born 31 January 1835 in Taylor Co.; son of George Discharged at By the end of the second day the Orphan Brigade had been decimated. April 1913; buried in Brookside Cemetery, Campbellsville, KY. CROUDUS, John P. 1860 Taylor Co. census - artist, age 20. George Hector Burton, ca. Absent sick in Historical Sketch & Roster of the South Carolina 8th Infantry Regiment (South Carolina Confederate Regimental History . (standing on the left; the man The Orphans thought that the war would be fought over their native state, but it was not to be. JOHNSTON, Charles Henry. 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 returned to Kentucky and fought their way back to take a rightful place in their states post-war public affairs. HALL, Ambrose Jackson. All photos except the following also 1998, Geoffrey R. Walden; all rights Appears in photo courtesy Jeff McQueary. Shiloh, where he was severely wounded in the head on 6 April 1862. Thomas. The Orphans represent the conquest of courage over timidity and sacrifice for the sake of a principle. Died of disease at Nashville, 23 November 1861. Certainly, General Simon Bolivar Buckner, their first commander, was one of Kentuckys most prominent soldiers, and his presence as the Orphans first commander was a source of much pride among the rank and file. Absent his company and was paroled at Washington, GA, on 7 May 1865. Louisville, Kentucky, June 1905 (this photo is large and may take some time to load; copy was wounded slightly in the groin), and Dallas; from Dallas to Atlanta; and at Peachtree, March 1862. Discharged for disability due to disease, 28 April 1862. Paroled at Washington, GA, 7 May 1865. History of the First Kentucky Brigade. the hospital in Johnsonville, TN; described as 5 feet 10 inches tall, with a fair Creek (Atlanta), 22 July 1864, and sent to Camp Chase prison. Married Mary C. Detailed as company fifer, entitled to Company C Enlisted 1 August 1861 at Camp Boone. Veluzat, 22 November (or December) 1887. Smith). Enlisted 1 September 1861 at Camp Burnett, age 24. Vol. December 1863. Adair Co., son of Joseph and Mary Owens Burton. Nichols McKinney. Andrew Jackson "Jack" Russell Camp Burnett, TN, 14 September 1861, Officers (4 total) .. 27 (range 22-35), NCOs (8) .. 25 (18-36), Musicians (2) 15 (12 & 18), Privates (66) . 23 (18-45), Service Losses, Company F, 4th Kentucky Infantry, Total served in Co. F, 1861-1865 105, Total captured and missing (not returned) 7 ( 7%), Total disabled by wounds or disease (not discharged) 5 ( 5%), Total casualties 57 (54%) Committed suicide in Green Shiloh, where he was wounded and captured, 6 April 1862. Never mind this boys, yelled Breckinridge, press on. Charge them! he cried. They ended the war fighting in South Carolina. Confederate Civilian Documents. still fighting on 29 April 1865, when it received word it had been surrendered, and From Taylor Co. Enlisted 15 August 1861 at Camp Burnett, Named to the Confederate Roll of Honor after Murfreesboro, for carrying the 4 (Summer 1989), pp. Company B alternate spellings shown where known. Took the Oath of Allegiance and enlisted in the US Army for frontier Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives 300 Coffee Tree Road P.O. The hoped-for reunion with Kentucky soil was not to be, however. 18. RUSSELL, Andrew Knox. The brigade was truly earning its nickname.[11]. feet 1 inch tall, with a fair complexion, light hair, and gray eyes. Vicksburg, Murfreesboro, Jackson, Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca, and Dallas; from Dallas to Co., serving as justice of the peace in McLoud in the late 1800s. Brother of William B. and Mark O. Moore. Inf.). Daniel B. Rucker, ca. We also offer full Smoke Cleanup, Sewage Cleanup, Mold Removal Services and Weather Related Disaster Cleanup. Assigned to the dismounted Detailed to DAFFRON, John M. From Wayne Co.; brother of Ambrose M. Daffron (see above Died 18 May 1922; buried in the City Cemetery in HICKMAN, Edward W. From Davidson Co., TN. Most of them were penniless. No further The survivors of the Orphan Brigade finally came home to their beloved Kentucky in 1865. Jackson, Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca, and Dallas; from Dallas to Atlanta; Peachtree, Murfreesboro, Jackson, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca, and They were mounted and fought General Shermans advance into the Carolinas only to be forced to surrender in early May 1865 at Washington, Georgia, not far from Augusta. census. Johnny Green of the Orphan Brigade: The Journal of a Confederate Soldier. We use specialized equipment unique to Southern Utah and our company. Gen. Benjamin H. Helm, Abraham Lincoln's brother-in-law, was mortally wounded on September 20, 1863, and died the following day. Born in Tazewell Co., VA; moved to Taylor Co., KY. 1860 Green Co. census - merchant in business with John Barnett. (Notes in his compiled military service record file say his record was Died of disease at Murfreesboro, TN, 15 March 1862. Appointed Commissary Sergeant, 11 October 1861, and promoted to 4th Sergeant, 1 August The irascible Bragg retorted, Sir, my information is different. Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca, and Dallas; from Dallas to Born 8 February 1835 in Green Co. Fought at Shiloh, Vicksburg, Murfreesboro, Jackson, Chickamauga, The 4th Kentucky not only lost heavily in officers and men, it suffered the final loss of its brave colonel, Joseph P. Nuckols, to a disabling wound. He held the colors upright, refusing any assistance, although he was bleeding profusely from his mouth and nose. 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). Kentucky overwhelmingly sent a pro-Union delegation to Congress after the June 20, 1861 elections. 1863, and to 3rd Sergeant, 1 October 1864. CHAMPION, Matthew. Ron Nicholas. file numbers 1877 and 2791. Intrenchment, and Utoy Creeks; and Jonesboro. He had been wounded at the head of his fine regiment twice before, at Shiloh and Murfreesboro. From Green Co. Enlisted 5 October 1861 at Camp BRYANT, James Gaither. Jackson. Re-issued. Deserted 13 December 1862 or 2 January 1863. Moved to Texas in Every purchase supports the mission. Sergeant, 13 September 1861. Enlisted 1 August 1861 at Camp Boone, August 1861 at Camp Burnett, age 19. ordered to Washington, Georgia, where the regiment was paroled on 6-7 May 1865. Absent Regimental Within weeks of Abraham Lincolns election to the Presidency, South Carolina seceded from the Union. Served in the mounted campaign. Fought at Shiloh, where he was FS Library Book 976.9 M2d. Enlisted 18 Enlisted 28 September 1861 in Nashville. Sick in hospital in Bowling Green, January 1862. in list of inmates, Pewee Valley Confederate Home, 1912. Detailed to to History of Company F, 4th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, CSA, URL: https://sites.rootsweb.com/~orphanhm/cof4ky.htm, Geoff Walden: enfield577 (at) live.com 7983, 8788, 9095, 105, 113116, 120121, 124125, 133, 135, 137139. son of Ann, age 19, farm hand. Died of disease in MS, 10 January 1863 Enlisted 1 August his company and fought at Murfreesboro, Jackson, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Rocky Face SCOTT, Benjamin Bell. Elected 1st Lieutenant on 14 September 1861. Possibly captured and took the Oath of Allegiance. Fought at Shiloh (where he was wounded), Murfreesboro (where he was Absent sick The Kentuckians fell by the scores. on roll dated 2 December 1862. of Company F. ADAIR, John Alexander. the orphan brigade. Died 30 March 1912; buried in Brookside Cemetery, Campbellsville, KY. sick, January-February 1864. Son of Elhannon Winchester Daffron and Died in either Dixie or and with the dismounted detachment during the campaign as mounted infantry. Enlisted 7 September 1862 at Chattanooga. courtesy Johnny Dodd, their gt-gt grandson, Harley Smith's grave Washington, GA, 7 May 1865. Johnson was the Confederate Governor of Kentucky until the Confederate army withdrew from the state. GA, 7 May 1865. Missionary Ridge, Rocky Face Ridge, and Resaca (where he was wounded in the right cheek, Intrenchment, and Utoy Creeks; Jonesboro and the mounted campaign. Brigadier Generals Roger Weightman Hanson of Winchester, Kentucky and Joseph Horace Lewis of Glasgow, Kentucky were mostly self-educated lawyers prior to the war. Exposed to enfilading fire, Helms attack finally faltered. Born 27 March 1832; from Taylor Co.; son of George KY. Enlisted 15 August 1861 at Camp Burnett. at Camp Burnett. For references to a wooden canteen he owned while in the 6th Kentucky HAM, Ezekiel. Shiloh, Vicksburg, Murfreesboro, Jackson, and Chickamauga. Lost at Chattanooga were favored guns of Captain Cobbs Kentucky Battery, 2 of them adoringly nicknamed by the Orphans for the wives of their favored commanders: Lady Breckinridge and Lady Buckner.. AL, September-October 1863), Missionary Ridge, Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca, and Dallas; from Enlisted 1 September 1861 at Camp The cry of General Breckinridge, My poor Orphans! was not in vain. [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. William "Curly Bill" and Louisia Thompson (family from Taylor Co.). Absent sick at Newnan, GA, That was followed by reunions in Lexington in 1883, Elizabethtown in 1884, Glasgow in 1885, Cynthiana in 1886, Bardstown in 1887, Frankfort in 1888, Louisville in 1889, Lawrenceburg in 1890, Owensboro in 1891, Paris in 1892, Versailles in 1893, Russellville in 1894, Bowling Green in 1895, and finally Nashville, Tennessee in 1896. Married Annie Paroled 25 May 1865 at Campaign. Fought in the campaign as mounted infantry. 12, No. Married Sue J. 1861-1865, Vol. Enlisted 1 August 1861 at Camp Boone, age 23. 1863. 1861 at Camp Burnett, TN. My poor Orphans," noted brigade historian Ed Porter Thompson, who used the term in his 1868 history of the unit. 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, Elizabeth (Morris) Johnson. There were falling timbers, crashing arms, the whirring of missiles of every description, the bursting of the dreadful shell, the groans of the wounded, the shouts of the officers, mingled in one horrid din that beggars description.[12]. URL: https://sites.rootsweb.com/~orphanhm/rosters.htm, Geoff Walden: enfield577 (at) live.com Born 9 January 1841 in Green Co.; son of Perigoyne 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. 13, No. Promoted to 3rd Corporal, 15 December 1862. 31 August 1864. Enlisted 1 August 1861 at age 19. With no recruiting being conducted in neutral Kentucky, those Kentuckians who sympathized with the plight of the seceded states flocked to camps in Tennessee to cast their lots with the South. Daniel Blakeman. Returned and reported absent sick at Newnan, GA, misfiled under Co. K, 42nd Georgia Infantry, but that he was actually in the 4th in the regimental wagon yard, June-December 1863. Born 17 August 1838 (or 1839) in Columbia, Adair 659-666. The brigade was the largest Confederate unit to be recruited from Kentucky during the war. Amanda Decker, of Wayne Co. (see above entry). of Kentucky Confederate veterans taken at the 1905 reunion in Louisville. almost within their grasp, had been snatched from them [on April 7], and their dead comrades were now mourned as those who shed their blood in vain.[7]. MARSHALL, Henry W. From Greensburg. During the day Old Joe Lewiss 6th Kentucky had fought against the 9th Kentucky Union infantry, among others. Kentucky as a state not only did not approve of secession, it evolved to become a Union state in every way. veterans taken at the 1905 Confederate reunion in Louisville. Paroled at Augusta, GA, 16 While about 1,512 Orphans were present for duty in May 1864 at Dalton, Georgia, only 513 reported present for duty on September 6. in March 1865, and was thus engaged when the war ended. 1865 (Iowa State Historical Society). Enlisted 1 August 1861 at Camp Burnett; for most of 1864. Colonel on 28 February 1863. Born in 1840; 1860 Green Co. census - field hand, son of 170-173. All rights reserved. Deserted on the retreat from Missionary Ridge, Enlisted 1 September 1861 at Camp Burnett. Enlisted 15 August Died of pneumonia at Burnsville, MS, 10 April 1862. Donations to the Trust are tax deductible to the full extent allowable under the law. 1st Corporal, 13 September 1861, promoted to 1st Sergeant, 1 April 1863. Soldiers homes, like the one at Pee Wee Valley, Kentucky would shelter some of the once sturdy Orphans. (possibly at Oxford, MS). frequently precluded from field duty by ill health. Co., 17 May 1877; buried in the Greensburg Cemetery. (His father was an Irish soldier and his mother, we learn, a white camp follower.) Those men would form the nucleus around which was organized the Orphan Brigade. Promoted to 3rd United States arsenals were seized by the seceded states and militias were organized. Camp Burnett, age 18. WILLOCK, Hartwell T. From Taylor Co. (1850 census - age 11, son of David and Green County, in July 1886. 2. Appointed 4th Corporal, 15 December 1862. 20 August 1861 at Camp Burnett, age 30. His body was returned to Georgetown for burial through the assistance of Union General James Streshly Jackson and Colonel John Marshall Harlan, both noted Kentuckians. family of Hugh and Eliza Jane Gilmer Atkins; store clerk in fathers saddle shop in (also called Nat Gaither) Born 9 March 1840, from Fought at Shiloh, Roster (complete name roster, by company, ftp site), Field and Staff On the tree was inscribed: T.B. Company F The Union 2nd Kentucky Cavalry regiment, through one of its captains, John D. Wickliffe, Colonel Wickliffes brother, returned the mortally wounded colonel to his comrades under a flag of truce! Thomas Kelly Battle Flag of the Fourth Kentucky and assistant operations director for a distillery. Before noon it began to rain and drizzle. age 26. Fought at 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. Compiled by Ray Todd Knight . Fought at Shiloh (where he was wounded in the left leg, 6 April 1862), Murfreesboro, Absent sick, September-December Waggoner, Co. F, 4th Ky. 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. 1861 at Camp Burnett, age 18. Paroled Was mortally wounded and captured during the latter battle, Enlisted 25 October 1861 at Bowling Green. Paroled at Washington, GA, 7 May 1865. Absent sick Promoted to Major on 13 February 1863, and to Lt. further military record. Army. It was then converted to mounted infantry, and opposed Sherman's March to Frankfort, Ky.: Printed at the Kentucky Yeoman Office, Major & Johnston, 1874. Confederate pension file number 2420. Absent sick at Dalton, GA, September-December 1862. 26. Louisiana Battalion, and enlisted in Co. F on 10 October 1862 at Knoxville, TN. Margaret Beeson Castillo (of Irish descent). Enlisted 1 September 1861 at Camp Burnett, health kept him generally incapacitated for duty in the ranks. GILBERT, Ambrose G. Enlisted 1 August 1861 at Camp Boone, age 26. Killed at Chickamauga, 20 No 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. Discharged for lameness due to disease, 10 September 1862. The Majority of our funds go directly to Preservation and Education. Peachtree, Intenchment, and Utoy Creeks; and at Jonesboro (where he was wounded on 1 2nd Lieutenant, 1 April 1863. uremic poisoning; buried in the Perkins Cemetery, near Bloyds Crossing, Green Co. better known by its post-war name "Orphan Brigade." 'Dare-Devil Fighter' During Civil War," The Kentucky Explorer, Vol. to disablement from ill health. Appears in photo of Kentucky Confederate veterans taken at the Louisville reunion [3], Captain Fayette Hewitt, Helm's assistant Adjutant-General, had all the Brigade's papers (over twenty volumes of record books, morning reports, letter-copy books as well as thousands of individual orders and reports) boxed up and taken to Washington. 1 (Frankfort, 1915), pp. Died 1 August 1920; buried in the Loy Cemetery, Adair Co. CASTILLO, James William. Elected 4th Sergeant, 13 September 1861. Also spelled Dafforn, Dafran, Dafford (also Married Mary Ella Gray, 2 April 1868. * Multiple wounds for each man count as only one here; mortal wounds counted as killed. (8/17/1846 - 1/16/1918). [9], Up, my men, and charge! shouted General Breckinridge at about 4 oclock that dreary and cold afternoon. Promoted to 1st Sergeant, 18 Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2002. 17 (1909), p. 525 and Vol. where he was mortally wounded on 6 April 1862. IRVINE, Henry C. From Columbia, KY. Mustered into service 13 From Wayne Co., KY. Enlisted 1 November 1862 at Fought in the mounted campaign. called Morgan; brother of John M. Daffron; cousin of Francis M. Daffron; son of Phillip As the brigade moved onto the battlefield and observed then Captain John Hunt Morgan and his squadron of Kentucky cavalry along the road, the men cheered and sang: Cheer, boys, cheer; well march away to battle; Cheer, boys, cheer, for our sweethearts and our wives; Cheer, boys, cheer; well nobly do our duty, And give to Kentucky our arms, our hearts, our lives., Riding up to General William J. Hardee, Colonel Trabue, Old Trib as the men fondly called him, asked: General, I have a Kentucky brigade here.