These are the memoirs of Lt. L. D. Young, who was born in Nicholas County, Kentucky. He joined the 4th Kentucky Infantry to serve the Confederate States during the Civil War, at the age of twenty.
Reminiscences of a Soldier of the Orphan Brigade is the story of a Confederate soldier.
Writing nearly fifty years later, the author of this little book, a member of the Fourth Kentucky Regiment and one of the few surviving "Orphans," interspersed his memories of the various battles in which the Brigade was involved with ...
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Conrad Wise Chapman served for a year in the West with the Orphan Brigade of the 3rd Kentucky Regiment. This is his memoir, written from memory in 1867 and aided by his correspondence with his family.
... Chief Coms'ry, S. M Moreman;23 Lt Presley Trabue,24 Ordnance officer; & Lt Joe Benedict Aid-de- camp. 1 Henry W. Halleck was at this time the Federal commander of the Department of the Mississippi with headquarters at St. Louis.
Top scholars contribute to this book of essays on the complex series of battles and political maneuvers for control of Kentucky during the Civil War.
William C. Davis has written a gripping story of the rebel troops whose remarkable spirit and tenacity were heralded throughout the Confederacy.
He decided to sell the coffee and sugar , hang on only to the “ Aannel and other things " he had bought , and seek to enter the Confederate States by way of Florida or Mexico . In an effort to cheer up his mother , who missed her son ...