728 HISTORY OF THE ORPHAN BRIGADE.

JERRY SMITH, Grant County, served as teamster from Oct. iS, 1862, till the close of the war.

GEO. W. SMITH, Grant County, served as teamster from Oct. 18, 1862, till December, 1S63, and was generally afterward disabled by disease for any duty.

WILLIAM SWITZER, Harrison County, left Dalton on furlough, Feb. 20, 1864; was captured in Kentucky, and confined at Camp Morton, Indiana, till the close of the war.

JACOB SANDUSKY, Jessamine County, fought at Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, Rocky Face Gap, Resaca, and Dallas; from Dallas to Atlanta; at Peachtree, Intrenchment, and Utoy Creeks; both days at Jonesboro', and in the mounted engagements. He was appointed fifth sergeant, June, 1864, for gallantry at Dallas.

LEWIS E. SANDUSKY, Jessamine County, fought at Chickamauga.

DUDLEY SANDUSKY, Jessamine County, died of disease at Abingdon, Va., Jan. 1, 1863.

CHILTON SANDUSKY, Jessamine County, died of disease at Abingdon, Va.,Jan. 19, 1863.

SAMUEL SCOTT, Jessamine County, fought at Chickamauga.

JAMES M. STARNES, Nicholas County, was for some time first sergeant.

NICHOLAS R. VARNER, Scott County, fought at Chickamauga and Mission Ridge.

EMANUEL VANTREES, Jessamine County, enlisted at fourteen years of age, and was appointed corporal a short time afterward. He fought at Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, Rocky Face Gap, Resaca, and Dallas, and was killed at the latter place, May 28, 1864.

JAMES WELCH, Jessamine County, fought at Chickamauga.

COMPANY I, FIFTH REGIMENT.

The material consulted in the preparation of this notice has enabled us to speak more fully of particular individuals than is the case with most other companies. Not having all the facts as to individual characters before us, so that we might make just remarks, even of the worthy dead, we have, in general, confined ourselves to a plain statement of the military deeds performed by each, and with respect to those who yet survive, we have adhered almost wholly to this policy, lest, with our inadequate personal knowledge of different men, we might make unjust and odious distinctions.

This company was recruited by Capt. Jo Desha, with the assistance of Lieut. James William Cleaveland, acting under authority of Maj.-Gen. E. Kirby Smith, September, 1862.    It was organized and sworn