History of the Orphan Brigade (CSA) + Bonus Book

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History of The
Orphan Brigade
By Ed Porter Thompson
1898
1,104 pages, illustrated with 80 portraits,
indexed, searchable
- Bonus Book -
Reminiscences of a Soldier
of the Orphan Brigade
By Lieut. L.D. Young, 1918
99 pages, searchable
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The Orphan Brigade was the nickname of the First Kentucky Brigade, a group of military
units recruited from the Commonwealth of 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 Major General
John C. Breckinridge, former Vice President of the United States and candidate for
President, who was enormously popular with Kentuckians.
Units of the Orphan Brigade were involved in many military engagements in the American
South during the course of the war, including the Battle of Shiloh. In 1862, Breckinridge
was promoted to division command and was succeeded in the brigade by Brigadier General
Roger W. Hanson. At the Battle of Stones River, the brigade suffered heavy casualties in an
assault on January 2, 1863, including General Hanson. Breckinridge--who vehemently
disputed the order to charge with the army's commander, General Braxton Bragg--rode
among the survivors, allegedly crying out repeatedly, "My poor Orphans! My poor Orphans."
The actual origin of the moniker "Orphan Brigade" remains in dispute. Although the Brigade
historian, Ed Porter Thompson, used the term in his 1868 history of the unit, it was probably
not in widespread use during the war, but became popular after the war among the veterans.
The Orphan Brigade lost yet another commander at the Battle of Chickamauga, when Benjamin
Hardin Helm was mortally wounded on September 20, 1863 and died the following day.
The Orphan Brigade served throughout the Atlanta Campaign of 1864, then were converted
to mounted infantry and opposed Sherman's March to the Sea. They ended the war fighting
in South Carolina in late April 1865, and surrendered at Washington, Georgia, on May 6-7, 1865.
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