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May 13, 2021 7
OPINIONS
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Heaven Is
A Lot Like
Kentucky
By Charles Mattox
Eighteen hundred and sixty-
one:
There in the echo of Sumter’s
gun
Marches the host of the Orphan
Brigade,
Lit by their banners, in hope’s
bait arrayed.
Five thousand strong, never le-
gion hath borne
Might as this bears it forth in
that morn:
Hastings and Crecy, Naseby,
Dunbar,
Cowpens and Yorktown, Thou-
sand Years’ War;
Is writ on their hearts as on-
ward afar
They shout to the roar of their
drums.
Eighteen hundred and sixty-
two:
Well have they paid to the earth
its due.
Close up, steady! The half are
yet here
and all of the might, for the liv-
ing bear l
the dead in their hearts over
Shiloh’s field
Rich, God, is thy harvest's
yield!
Where flzith swings the sickle,
GO TELL THE ORPHANS
trust binds the sheaves,
to the roll of the surging drums.
Eighteen hundred and sixty-
three:
Barring Sherman’s march to
the sea-
shorn to a thousand; face to the
foe
back, ever back, but stubborn
and slow
Nineteen hundred wounds they
take
in that service of Hell, yet the
hills they shake
with the roar of their charge as
onward they go
to the roar of their throbbing
drums.
Eighteen hundred and sixty-
four:
Their banners are tattered, and
scarce twelve score,
battered and wearied and
seared and old,
stay by the staves where the 0r-
phans hold
firm as a rock when the surges
break
shield of a land where men die
for His sake.
For the sake of the brothers
whom they have laid low,
to the roll of their mufi‘led
drums.
Eighteen hundred and sirlyfive:
The Devil is dead and the Lord
is alive,
in the earth that springs where
the heroes sleep,
and in love new born where the
stricken weep.
That legion hath marched past
the setting of sun:
Beaten? Nay, victors:
realms they have won
are the hearts of men who for-
ever‘shall hear
the throb of their far-off drums.
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'THE ORPHAN BRIGADE’
By Harvard geology professor,
and Kentucky native; Nathaniel
S. Shaler. Prof. Shaler fought on
the side of the Union Army dur~
ing the American Civil War. Like
many Union soldiers, Shaler
came to admire and respect his
dreadedr Kentucky Confederate
foes that made up the Kentucky
Orphan Brigade.
MAY 14, 1912
The following takes place in
Gordon County, Georgia, just
northwest of the small commu-
nity of Resaca, and just east of
Camp Creek.
70-year-old, LD. Young stood
at the edge of the clearing that
marked the position where he
and his Confederate comrades
had made their deadly stand
against General William Tecum-
seh Sherman’s vast Union Army
48 years earlier in May 1864, as
Sherman’s army was beginning
its southward surge toward At-
lanta.
Lieut Lot Dudley (LD) Young
was born in Nicholas County,
Kentucky in 1842. At the age of
twenty he joined a band of
zen soldiers known as the "Flat
Rock Grays,” a Kentucky militia
unit that would eventually be-
come Company H of the Fourth
Kentucky Infantry Regiment,
First Kentucky Infantry Brigade, '
Confederate States of America,
known across the annals of time
simply as The Orphan Brigade.
As the Battle of Resaca had
loomed, the Orphan Brigade’s
Battle flags were adorned with
the names of major engagements
and battles the unit had survived
thus far. SHHDH, CORINTH,
VICKSBURG, BATON ROGUE,
PORT HUDSON, STONES
RIVER OR MURFRESSBORO,
JACKSON, CHICKAMAUGA,
and MISSIONARY RIDGE.
At this place, the Orphans had
been part of a defensive strat-
egy to try to hold onto some of
the railroad systems that were
bringing supplies in and around
Atlanta, one of the major hubs of
Confederate operations at this
1 late point in the war.
ID Young made his way
across the landscape, along the
edge of the ridge where he and
his comrades of the Fourth regi-
ment had repulsed wave after
wave of Union soldiers in two
days of fighting so long ago, and
yet, in his minds’ eye, the events
occurred as if only yesterday.
The Orphans were so named
because they lost so many of
their officers as the war dragged
on and because once they left
their home state of Kentucky,
they never went home during the
war, not as a unit and not singu—
larly as soldiers on leave.
Kentucky was the only state to
have a star in the Battle Flags of
both the Northern and Southern
Armies
One of the banners under
which the 4th Regiment of the
Orphans fought was a red cross
on a blue background with 13
white stars on the cross. All of
the battle flags of the 4th Regi-
ment were carried into battle by
Robert ‘Bob’ Iindsay, of Scott
County.
Bob and L!) were best friends
and were seldom more than a
few feet away from one another
before, during or after, any battle.
The 4th Regiment’ 5 first battle
was at Shiloh, TN on April 6-7,
1862. During that battle the origi-
nal color-bearer of the 4th Ken-
tucky fell, and Ijndsay took the
flag. He remained the regimental
color-bearer, and carried the flag
in all the rest of his battles.
Iindsay was twice cited for gal—
lantry in battle. In October 1862
the Confederate Government
authorized “medals of honor”
to be awarded for bravery. The
actual medals were never pro
duced, but the Confederate Ad-
jutant Generals Office published
a General Order providing for a
“Roll of Honor” to be produced
with the names of “one private
or non-conunissioned officer of
each company after every signal
victory it shall have assisted to
achieve,” and to be read before I
the regiment at dress parade.
The awardees were chosen by
vote of the other soldiers of the
company. The Army of Tennes-
see, to which the 4th Regiment
of the Kentucky lst Infantry was
assigned, selected the battles of
Murfreesboro, TN (December
31, 1862 - January 2, 1863) and
Chickarnauga, GA (September
19-20, 1863) as battles for which
the Roll of Honor should be
produced. Robert Iindsay was
named to the Roll of Honor for
both of these battles; one of only
seven such double awardees in
the entire Army of Tennessee.
He had been wounded at the Bat-
tle of Murfreesboro on January
2, 1863, and was mentioned by
his colonel (Robert H. Trabue)
in his official report of the battle:
“lhe color-bearer (Robert Lind-
say), being wounded, refused to
allow anyone to accompany him
to the rear, although bleeding at
the mouth and nose.” (Official
Records of the Union and Con—
federate Armies, Series I, Vol. 20
page 828).
“Oh how I miss my brother,
Bob,” L.D. said aloud to his com-
panion of the day, J .H. Norton, a
resident of Resaca, as they stood
on the long forgotten ramparts
and beheld the cleared valley be-
fore him where waves of soldiers
dressed in blue had been armi-
hilated by Young and his fellow
soldiers.
Norton was also a Confeder-
ate veteran, who had lost an arm
at Chancellorsville and who had
convalesced and later moved to
Resaca, where he ran a store.
As a hobby, Norton and a
friend would occasionally walk
the valley where the Yankees
had marched straight into the
guns of the Orphans and pick up
the Minnie balls or bullets fired
during the battle.
Young saw first-hand a three-
bushel-box completely full of
such bullets they had picked up
and was told they had accumu—
lated a total of over a thousand
pounds more of the bullets.
Young would continue on his
tour of the south and particularly
locations where he and his fellow
Orphans had made their stands
across seven states before they
surrendered one month after
General Lee and the Army of Vir-
ginia surrendered.
LD. had promised himself af-
ter the war that if able, he would
one day trek back across the
battlefields of his youth and pay
nibute to his comrades buried
across the south.
The Orphans began the war
with almost 5,000 souls. When
they surrendered at Washington
Georgia on May 7, 1865, Capt.
Lot Abraham of the 4th Iowa
Calvary of Union forces accepted
the parole of the surviving 526
members of the Orphan Brigade.
Most of them, like LD Young at
the time were on crutches or oth-
erwise wounded at least once.
If the Good Lord is willing, we
will rejoin LD Young, Bob lind-
say and their companions within
the confines of this column in the
future.
By Cecil Lawson
In my spare time (mostly
stolen time) over the past
week, I’ve been reorganiz-
ing a storage unit I have
where I store my books,
clothes, Lori’s craft items,
and miscellaneous “stuff.”
I knew I owned a lot of
books, but I didn’t realize
exactly how many. I didn’t
pay enough attention to get
an exact count, but there’s
a 15 foot long wall, and at
least 6 feet high, full of box-
es of my books.
At one time I had most of
those tucked away into my
bedroom shelves and clos-
et. Now I understand why
I had so little room in there.
This hasn’t been the first
time this has happened.
I lived in a Lexington
over 25 years ago and had a
pretty decent one bedroom
apartment. It had a walk-in
closet in the bedroom, and
I was so taken with the nov-
elty of it, I turned it into my
de facto library. I crammed
my clothes into another tiny
closet with sliding doors.
I was in graduate school
photo by Cecil Lawson
Me, in the are before selfles, poring over a good book in my
old studio apartment in Massachusetts. Note the sagging '-
shelves full of books behind me; they extend the entire
length of the wall, out of the frame.
back then, and it was noth—
ing to spend a $2000 a year
on books I needed for my
classes. And any spare
money I had at that time
went for books as well.
I was on a mission to ed—
ucate myself, to fill in the
gaps of my own cultural lit-
eracy. I had a 3-ring binder
notebook full of pages that
served as my “to be read”
list, and it was organized
from the late 18005 to the
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BOOKS A PLENTY
present (about 1993). It
grew- and grew regularly
until I finally had to do away
with it, because it simply
couldn’t hold any more lists
of books to read.
My book closet in Lex-
ington eventually was out-
grown by my collection. I
wound up dragging most of
those back to Moore’s Fer-
ry with me when I moved
back home.
I packed them all up again
in a Penske moving truck
and took them to Amherst,
Massachusetts, a few years
later to return to school.
That made up the bulk of
what I took with me, and I
had a wall full cheap plastic
shelves that sagged under
the weight as the Collection ‘
grew. ’
The presence of a half
dozen book stores within
walking distance of my stu-
dio apartment there did not
help with my hording.
Eventually I had to sell a
bunch of them before mov-
ing, and the load soon light-
ened to just a few shelves. I
packed up and moved back
to Kentucky in 2008 and
returned to Amherst the
following summer with my
friend Tom to get the rest of
my things including many,
many more books.
That collection has grown
again, and I think I have
more now than I ever have.
At least I have the storage
building. For now.
I happen to own a Kindle
e-reader, and I have'prob-
ably downloaded 700 plus
books for it, but I still like
the feel of a book in my
heads, in front of my eyes.
My continual reading and
my age had finally made
me realize that I’m going to
need bi—focals soon.
Books have always been
there for me, and I’ll always
be there for them.
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