Encampment of Orphan Brigade re-enactors will portray officers and enlisted men who served in the 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th, 6th and 9th Kentucky Infantry regiments during the Civil War. Although they suffered extreme hardships and tremendous loss of lives, the First Kentucky Brigade proved to be "the best brigade in the Confederate Army." Besides tents, open campfires, several static cannons, and a few picketed horses, re-enactments will include:

• Early morning drills
• Cooking over open campfires
• Political speakers running for office
• Camp chaplain conducting a revival of the period
• Execution of a deserter
• Punishment administered to a camp thief
  
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• Period music by Saxton's Cornet Band
• Wet-plate photography by Tim Parson
• Presentation about Orphan Brigade surgeon John Orlando Scott, by Hugh Ridenour
• Food (available for purchase)

Exhibit organized by the Museum of the Confederacy, Richmond, Virginia. Other artifacts from the Kentucky Historical Society/Military Museum, the Filson Club Historical Society, the Jacob Hiestand House, the Orphan Brigade Kinfolk Association, and the Kentucky Building collections.

Photos of the activities held during the encampment are now available for viewing!

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Additional funding from the Harry L. Jackson Visiting Exhibit Fund,
WKU College Heights Foundation

Note: A Kind of Nobility: The Kentucky Orphan Brigade was on display at the Kentucky Museum from February 2-July 31, 1999. This web site now functions as an online exhibit only. To learn more about artifacts in the exhibit contact the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, Virginia.

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