MILITARY: Photos of Confederate Soldiers, Bullitt Co., KY

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Transcribed by: twotrees@hal-pc.org
Date: Jan 2001
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FILSON CLUB OF LOUISVILLE, KY. RECEIVED ELEVEN HUNDRED PICTURES OF CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS

Dr. Mark V. Wetherington, Director of the organization on Aug. 26, 2000 on behalf of the 
Filson Club accepted over eleven hundred pictures of Confederate soldiers who had a 
connection with Kentucky.

The pictures were donated by the Orphan Brigade Kinfolk at their annual meeting which was 
held at the Filson Club with Dr. Wetherington being the main speaker. His topic was, "The 
Battle for Kentucky's Soul: How the South Won the War After the Shooting Stopped." The 
audience was spellbound and had many questions after the presentation.

The pictures were in individual Confederate gray file folders which in many cases included 
the following: an interesting story about the Confederate, a picture of the Confederate, a 
pictures of his wife-if he had a wife-a pictures of his home, a picture of his tombstone.  
Also included were family charts and ancestral charts of genealogy.

The file also included a cover sheet which gave his rank, the company in which he served, 
the county where he lived when he entered the service, where he was buried, plus who donated 
the information. 

Among the fifty people attending the meeting, there were members from California, Oklahoma 
and Alabama, as well as Indiana and Kentucky.

The Orphan Brigade Kinfolk was organized in 1987 at Bardstown, Kentucky.  We have had six 
hundred sixty five to join the organization. The members live all over the United States.

Additional copies of the pictures were exhibited at the meeting on heavy cardboards which 
were two feet high and four feet long, with forty or fifty pictures per board.

The "Orphan Brigade" (officially the First Kentucky Brigade, CSA), composed primarily of 
Kentuckians, was acclaimed by both the North and the South as the best fighting force ever 
assembled.

If you have a Confederate ancestor (lineal or collateral) with a Kentucky connection, whose 
memory you cherish and would like to preserve, please contact:

   Porter Harned
 1012 King Arthur Lane
 Louisville, KY 40222

CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS WITH A KENTUCKY CONNECTION ON FILE WITH THE ORPHAN BRIGADE KINFOLK AS 
OF SEPT. 11, 2000*

BARNES    EDWIN A.            2nd Ky Inf, Co K Bullitt Co., Ky
BELL      JOHN S.             1st Ky Cav, Co D Bullitt Co., Ky
BREWER    JAMES E.            6th Ky Inf, Co H Bullitt Co., Ky
HARDY     FRANCIS MARION      6th Ky Inf, Co H Bullitt Co., Ky
HEDGES    WILLIAM C           4th Ky Inf, Co B Bullitt Co., Ky
LEE       PHILIP LIGHTFOOT    2nd Ky Inf, Co C Bullitt Co., Ky
MAGRUDER  HENRY (C.-?)        2nd Ky Cav, Co D Bullitt Co., Ky
McDOWELL  JAMES               1st Ky Cav, Co D Bullitt Co., Ky
PHELPS    DANIEL IRA          2nd Ky Inf, Co C Bullitt Co., Ky
SMITH     WILLIAM H."HOOSIER" 1st Ky Cav, Co D Bullitt Co., Ky


*Orphan Brigade includes: 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 9th Ky Inf, Cobb's Btry (briefly: 3rd, 7th, 
8th Ky Inf, Morgan's Squadron, 41st Al) {1st Ky Cav "adopted" postwar}

  Donated by:
  Porter Harned, Treasurer
  Orphan Brigade Kinfolk
  1012 King Arthur Lane
  Louisville, KY 40222-4413
(TRANSCRIBED BY WALTER E. WELSH)