HISTORY OF THE ORPHAN BRIGADE.

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in them all the qualities essential to good citizens, and they presently enjoyed the confidence and esteem of the soldiers who had fought them, and of the people who claimed them both.

They met with favor commensurate with their efforts to deserve it. The assertion has been made (with what plausibility the reader must judge), that no other organization of an equal number of soldiers, in the history of the continent, has ever furnished as many men who have been honored by their people with public office, intrusted with positions of responsibility, recognized as able, useful, and influential members of the learned professions, or have so well maintained themselves as honest, enterprising, and highly respectable toilers in private station.

On examination of the Special Department of Biography and of the list with which this chapter concludes, it will be found that the Orphan Brigade has given the State a Governor, two Secretaries of State, an Attorney-General, an Auditor of Public Accounts, four Adjutants-General, two Quartermasters-General, a Commissioner of Agriculture, one Prison Warden, a Prison Chaplain, two State Librarians, two* Justices of the Supreme Court, a Public Printer and Binder, two Superintendents of Public Instruction, and several minor officers of State Departments, a United States District Attorney, a. United States Assistant District Attorney, one First Auditor U. S.. Treasury, one member Constitutional Convention of 1890-91, one U. S. Treasury Agent, four Congressmen, two Consuls, five Circuit Judges, numerous County and Probate Judges and County Attorneys, three Commonwealth's Attorneys, a Mayor of Louisville, and Mayors of other cities, many Representatives and Senators in the General Assembly, three Clerks of the Court of Appeals, three Clerks of the Louisville Chancery Court; and of county, district, and municipal officers too many to be enumerated. In the learned professions many have been prominent in this and other States, while a host who have engaged in private callings have been among the leading men in their respective communities.

This list of those who have not special mention elsewhere except in the Brief History of Individuals, is far from being perfect. The writer has had to depend largely on memoranda made since the war as. facts have come under his observation. Survivors to whom he has applied for information have given what they could; but many whom the people have honored with their confidence and their votes have doubtless been omitted, because those who have responded have no reliable information as to their comrades who live in localities in the State removed from their own, or have made their homes in other States.   What we are able to give, however, will show that the men