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HISTORY OF THE ORPHAN BRIGADE.

Maj. Byrne, as has been seen, was detached from Gen. Morgan, and fought with Breckinridge's division at Stone River. When Gen. Morgan returned from his Kentucky campaign, he rejoined him, and, with his battalion, took part in the subsequent operations of that officer.

GRAVES'S BATTERY.

In November, 1S61, Rice E. Graves was promoted to captain of artillery, and placed in command of a battery of field pieces, manned by some men enlisted for that particular service and others detailed from the several regiments of the Kentucky Brigade, with Co. B, Fourth Kentucky Infantry, entire. This company, and the details and recruits alluded to, constituted Graves's Battery at Donelson, where it did the splendid fighting which won the admiration of the Confederate officers, and was commented on by the enemy. Several of the men named below were afterward assigned to Cobb's Battery, and Co. B was reunited with its regiment after returning from prison, with the exception of a few noted as having been permanently transferred for artillery service : ,

RICE E. GRAVES, captain. SELDEN SPENCER, first lieutenant.

ALBERT C. GIBSON, first lieutenant, was detailed as adjutant of the battery.

MARSHALL SPENCER, second lieutenant.

JAMES E. RANKIN, second lieutenant, was detailed as commissary

of the battery. THOMAS R. HOTCHKISS, first sergeant. JOSEPH N. BELL, second sergeant. CHARLES B. SCOTT, third sergeant.

ANDREW J. MONTGOMERY, fourth sergeant, was detailed for commissary duty. He was accidentally shot and killed in Georgetown about twenty-five years after the war.

MAURICE LANGHORNE, fifth sergeant.

WILLIAM HENRY, sixth sergeant.

J. J. JACKSON, seventh sergeant.

J. J. WILLIAMS, first corporal.

JAMES B. PHILLIPS, second corporal.

JOSEPH H. WOOLFOLK, third corporal.

JOHN H. THOMAS, fourth corporal.