HISTORY OF THE ORPHAN BRIGADE.

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CHARLES ZEIGLER, Germany, was enlisted at Corinth, after the battle of Shiloh, and fought at Vicksburg, Baton Rouge, Hartsville, Stone River, Jackson, and Chickamauga. He was mortally wounded at the latter place, and died soon afterward.

BYRNE'S BATTERY.

The action of Light Artillery, under command of Captain (afterward Major) Byrne, in two battles with the Kentucky Brigade, those of Shiloh and Stone River, has been treated of heretofore; but we may notice here the origin and organization of the battery, and some incidents not elsewhere alluded to.

When it was announced that South Carolina had passed the ordinance of secession, Edward P. Byrne, a native of Kentucky, but residing at that time in Washington County, Miss., determined to recruit and organize a company of Light Artillery, and accordingly set about the work. He repaired to Memphis, and contracted with Quinby & Robinson for the manufacture of six brass field pieces, and with Street & Hungerford for carriages and caissons. This was the first battery manufactured in Memphis, and was furnished to Capt. Byrne, and contributed to the service, by the citizens of Washington County, Miss. The guns were four six-pounders and two twelve-pound howitzers; the company consisted of a fine body of the better class of young men   Kentuckians and Mississippians; the horses were excellent, and largely in excess of what was actually demanded for the officers and for draught; and the whole was thoroughly and handsomely equipped.

Pending the manufacture of the guns and equipments, Capt. Byrne proceeded to Louisville, where he met Colonels Temp Withers and Robert A. Johnson, who, aided by some of the prominent and wealthy citizens of that city, were completing their arrangements for recruiting the Second Regiment of Infantry, as observed in the preceding part of this work. Meanwhile, however, he had contemplated adding the battery, when completed, to the forces at Charleston, and telegraphed to Gen. Beauregard to know if he desired more artillery, whereupon the following telegram was sent to Capt. Lockwood : '' The Confederate flag now floats over Fort Sumter," and that night of wild excitement ensued in Memphis which has been noted by others as a part of the history of those times.

He proposed to the officers aforementioned that he would attach his battery to the Kentucky troops, now about to be organized on the Tennessee border, but remained some time in Louisville, assisting in