HISTORY OF THE ORPHAN BRIGADE.

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into service, September 27th, at the Cynthiana Fair Grounds, and remained here until October 5th, when it marched to Camp Dick Robinson, by way of Lexington. Here it was united with the companies of Gaines, Musselman, and Calvert, and the four were placed under command of Capt. Desha, and went out of Kentucky with the main army of Bragg, leaving Camp Breckinridge, October 13th. The companies of Musselman and Calvert had been recruited for Marshall's command, and on arriving at Knoxville they expressed a desire to return to West Virginia, in which Capt. Desha at once acquiesced, though manifestly to his own disadvantage. After their departure, the other two companies were, at their own request, ordered to report to Col. Thomas H. Hunt, then at Murfreesboro'. They were accordingly attached to the Ninth Regiment, under the titles of I and K, and remained with it until May, 1863, when the brigade had reached Montgomery, on it way to reenforce Gen. Johnston, in his attempt to relieve Pemberton. Here, they were ordered to report to Gen. Preston, at Abingdon, Va., with a view to the formation of a battalion, or regiment, to be commanded by Capt. Desha. Owing to the difficulty that then attended recruiting for the infantry, and to the active movements shortly inaugurated, the contemplated organization was never completed. The troops assembled at Abingdon, marched thence to Big Creek Gap, thence to Cumberland Gap, and again to Abingdon ; after which Gen. Preston was ordered westward to reenforce Bragg, at Chickamauga, and Companies I and K were attached to the Fifth Regiment   temporarily, it was proposed at the time; but they remained with that command from that period until the close of the war.

It will be seen that, in noticing the services of the men, we mention their having taken part in the mounted engagements in Georgia onlv, which is accounted for by the fact that the company was detached from the brigade at Liberty Hill, S. C, just previously to the march to the region of the Wateree, and sent to Columbia, to act as couriers between that city and Blackstock, and that they remained here until the main body of the command passed through Columbia, on its way to Washington, Ga.

JO DESHA, Harrison County.    (See biography.)

JAMES WM. CLEAVELAND, Harrison County, was a member of Capt. Desha's company (C), of the First Kentucky Infantry, having enlisted on the 23d of April, 1861. He served in Virginia until the First Regiment was disbanded. He then attached himself to Cameron's battalion of Kentucky cavalry, and served with it in Western Virginia, and on the march into Kentucky   a portion of the time in the commissary department. Early in September, 1862, he again enlisted with Capt. Desha, assisted that officer in recruiting, and, on the 27th of the same month, was