CIVIL WAR CSA 1st Kentucky Brigade THE ORPHAN BRIGADE

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The regiments that were part of the Orphan Brigade were the  2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 9thKentucky Infantry.  In 1862, Breckinridge was promoted to division command and was succeeded in the brigade by Gen Roger 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, crying out repeatedly, "My poor Orphans! My poor Orphans," noted brigade historian Ed Porter Thompson, who used the term in his 1868 history of the unit. The name came from how the Confederacy viewed its soldiers from Kentucky (which remained neutral in the Union. The term was not in widespread use during the war, but it became popular afterwards among the veterans.

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.