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HISTORY OF THE ORPHAN BRIGADE.

   these make it fitting that they should appear together on the lists which their posterity will scan when they would learn how their sires bore themselves in that period of pain and peril.

All who hold in proud and affectionate remembrance the name and deeds of members of the First Kentucky Cavalry that fell in battle; who have a patriot's respect for such as suffered and fought, yet lived and endured to the end, afterward illustrating in peaceful times the civic virtues, but have since gone to their account; who recognize the veterans that still survive as their worthy representatives in keeping Kentucky's honor during a most momentous struggle; who appreciate the fact that they themselves are the partakers of the increased fame which their fathers and brothers and friends gave to their native State,    all these, as well as the old soldiers themselves, owe a debt of gratitude to the men without whose aid and encouragement the author could not have succeeded in achieving any real success in making up the record of names and military service, and bearing due testimony to their high character in other walks of life.

It should be noted here that not only the men of this regiment, but those of every other cavalry command that went from the State, furnished their own horses and their own side arms, and in most instances the shotguns, carbines, muskets   whatever long-range guns they bore in the beginning of their service. Subsecment supplies of arms and ammunition, better patterns, and more uniformity were due chiefly to their own prowess and not to the War Department.

Those who have contributed useful (in many instances indispensable) information are: Gen. Joseph Wheeler, of Alabama, in whose corps the First Kentucky saw much and varied service; Col. Wm. C. P. Breckinridge, of the Ninth Kentucky Cavalry, who, for some time, commanded the Kentucky Cavalry Brigade, of which the First Kentucky was a part; Robt. S. Sprake and Milford Overley, of the Ninth Kentucky Cavalry; and of the First Cavalry, Wm. T. Ellis, Jas. H. Bozarth, and W. T. Aull, Co. A; Capt. Geo. W. Beckley, E. Polk Johnson, B. F. Camp, and Joseph E. Vincent, Co. B; John M. Fferndon, and W. H. Conder, Co. C (second organization); Thomas D. Ireland, Co. D (original organization); Samuel D. Brooks, and Wm. H. Smith, Co. D (second organization); Wm. Wallace Herr, James H. Rudy, and F. M. Scrimsher, Co. E (original organization); Wm. DeCoursey Jones, J. Byron Montgomery, and Joseph L. Davis, Co. E (second organization); Jno. Will Dyer, Co. F (original organization); Geo. W. Quarles, Co. G; and Reuben J. Laughlin, Co. K (original organization). These gentlemen have honorable mention elsewhere in this work.