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Kentucky "Orphan" Brigade 
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"From the Front"
Letters, Reports, and
Reminiscences
by Members of the Orphan Brigade
Report from
the Louisville Daily Courier, 11 July 1861, concerning Kentuckians going
South from
Lexington to enlist in the 2nd and 3rd Kentucky regiments at Camp Boone
Report from
Camp Boone, 13 July 1861
Report from
Camp Boone, 13 August 1861
Report from
Camp Burnett, 4th Kentucky Infantry, 4 September 1861
Letter from
Camp Boone, 2nd Kentucky Infantry, 5 September 1861
Report
from camp at Bowling Green, 6th Kentucky Infantry, 26 November 1861
Report
from camp at Bowling Green, 2nd Kentucky Infantry, 2 December 1861
Diary Account
of Fort Donelson, Lt. Spencer, Graves' Kentucky Battery
Letter
from Shiloh, Capt. John Trice, 4th Kentucky Infantry, 8 April 1862
Letters of
William Rees, 5th/9th Kentucky Infantry, March-September 1862
Letters of
Matt Lewis, 5th/9th Kentucky Infantry, May-September 1862 (in prison at Camp
Douglas:
also a
letter written from Dalton, GA, March 1864)
Letter from
Lt. Ed F. Spears, 2nd Kentucky Infantry, written from prison at Johnson's Island,
18
April 1862 (describes actions at Fort Donelson, and prison life)
Letter from
Camp Douglas prison, Corp. Frank Mullen, 2nd Kentucky Infantry, 16 October 1863
Letter
from Color-Corp. Robert Lindsay, 4th Kentucky Infantry, Dalton, GA, 17 December 1863
Resolutions
of the Orphan Brigade, Green's Cut, GA, 11 February 1865
Letter from
Capt. Jo Desha, 5th Kentucky Infantry, Augusta, GA, 21 February 1865
Battle note
from unknown soldier, 4th Kentucky Infantry, Swift Creek, SC, 18 April 1865
Post-War Reminiscences
Louis
Douglass Payne's Reminiscences, 2nd Kentucky Infantry (from Confederate Veteran)
Reminiscence
of Shiloh, Lt. John Cunningham, 4th Kentucky Infantry
Coincidences of the Owens Brothers, 4th
Kentucky Infantry, CSA and USA
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