Davis, William C.

The Orphan Brigade: The Kentucky Confederates Who Couldn't Go Home

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1980. First Edition. 318, illus., endpaper maps, chapter notes, bibliography, index, DJ somewhat scuffed. The Orphan Brigade was the nickname of the First Kentucky Brigade, a group of units recruited from the Commonwealth of Kentucky to fight for the Confederacy during the Civil War. Its original commander was Major General John C. Breckinridge, formerly Vice President of the United States. Condition: very good, good.

Keywords: Civil War, Confederacy, Kentucky, Battle of Shiloh, Vicksburg, Chickamauga, John Breckinridge, Braxton Bragg, John Caldwell

ISBN: 0385148933

[Book #2424]

Price: $25.00