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In light of all of the foregoing, and the general high quality of it, how unfortunate it is that no comparable sources exist for either the 2d or 5th Kentucky infantries. Aside from only one or two very brief articles in the
Bivouac
, the veterans of those units remained silent. And we have nothing from the men of Byrne, Cobb, or Graves.

For general background on Kentucky during the war, the best single source is E. Merton Coulter,
Civil War and Readjustment in Kentucky
. Also useful is J. Stoddard Johnston’s
Kentucky
, Volume IX in the
Confederate Military History
. And for the story of the State Guard, the best recent work is Richard G. Stone’s
A Brittle Sword
. And, of course, for any book on any aspect of the Civil War, the U. S. War Department’s
War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies
is indispensable. It is particularly full for the early years of the Kentucky brigade’s service.

Bibliography
MANUSCRIPTS

Breckinridge Family Papers, Library of Congress.

Breckinridge, John C. Papers, in possession of Mrs. J. C. Breckinridge, Summit Point, W.Va.

—–. Chicago Historical Society.

—–. Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif.

—–. New-York Historical Society, New York, N.Y.

—–. Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, O.

Breckinridge, Mary C. Letters, in John C. Breckinridge Compiled Service Record, Record Group 109, National Archives.

Buck, Samuel D. Papers, William Perkins Library, Duke University, Durham, N.C.

Buckner, Simon B. Papers, Henry E. Huntington Library.

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Bush, Squire Helm. Diary, 1862–63, Hardin County Historical Society, Elizabethtown, Ky.

Chap. II, Vol. 305, Military Departments. Orders Received by the 1st Kentucky Brigade, Apr.–Oct. 1862, Record Group 109, National Archives.

—–. Vol. 306, Orders and Circulars Received by 1st Kentucky Brigade, Nov. 1862–May 1863.

—–. Vol. 307, Military Departments. Orders and Circulars Received by 1st Kentucky Brigade, Nov. 1861–Apr. 1864.

—–. Vol. 308, Military Departments. Orders Received and Orders Issued by 1st Kentucky Brigade, 1862–63.

—–. Vol. 309, Orders Received, Morning Reports and Returns, 1st Kentucky Brigade, Jan. 1863–May 1864.

—–. Vol. 310, Military Departments. Orders Received, Orders Issued, and Morning Reports, 1st Kentucky Brigade, Aug. 1862–Oct. 1864.

—–. Vol. 311, Letters, Telegrams Received and Sent by Gen. Breckinridge’s Command, Dec. 1861–Nov. 1863.

—–. Vol. 312, Military Departments. Orders and Circulars Received, 1st Kentucky Brigade, 1862–63.

—–. Vol. 313, Military Departments. Orders and Circulars Received, 1st Kentucky Brigade, 1862–63.

—–. Vol. 314, Military Departments. Orders and Circulars Received, 1st Kentucky Brigade, Aug. 1863–Jan. 1865.

—–. Vol. 315, Military Departments. Special Orders Received and Record of Details, Discharges, Furloughs, and Transfers, 1st Kentucky Brigade, 1862–63.

—–. Vol. 316, Military Departments. Special Orders Received, 1st Kentucky Brigade, Nov. 1861–Oct. 1862.

—–. Vol. 317, Military Departments. Morning Reports, 1st Kentucky Brigade, Nov. 1861–Feb. 1862.

Chap. VI, Vol. 663, Medical Department Register of Patients of 2d Kentucky Infantry Hospital and of Hospitals at Tunnel Hill, Ga., and Miscellaneous Data Pertaining to Other Hospitals, 1863–65, Record Group 109, National Archives.

Chap. VIII, Vol. 67, Miscellaneous Quartermaster Accounts, 2d, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 9th Kentucky regiments, undated. Record Group 109, National Archives.

—–. Vol. 68, Miscellaneous Quartermaster Accounts, 2d, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 9th Kentucky regiments.

—–. Vol. 69, Clothing Account Book, Company C, 4th Kentucky Volunteers, 1862–64.

—–. Vol. 70, Miscellaneous Quartermaster Accounts, 4th Kentucky Volunteers.

—–. Vol. 71, Miscellaneous Quartermaster Accounts, 4th Kentucky Volunteers.

—–. Vol. 72, Miscellaneous Record of Quartermaster Stores Issued to the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 9th Kentucky Volunteers, 1864–65.

Chap. IX, Vol. 26, Secretary of War. Register of Letters Received Sept. 1862–Apr. 1863, A–L, Record Group 109, National Archives.

Clay, Thomas J. Papers. Library of Congress.

Compiled Service Records, Record Group 109, National Archives, for the following:

Breckinridge, John C.

Breckinridge, Joseph Cabell

Buckner, Simon B.

Caldwell, John W.

Cobb, Robert

Cofer, Martin H.

Graves, Rice E.

Hanson, Roger W.

Hawes, Joseph M.

Hawkins, Hiram

Helm, Ben Hardin

Hewitt, James W.

Hunt, Thomas H.

Johnson, Robert A.

Kenshattentyeth (Flying Cloud)

Lee, Philip Lightfoot

Lewis, Asa

Lewis, Joseph H.

Moss, James W.

Nuckols, Joseph P.

O’Hara, Theodore H.

Thompson, Ed Porter

Trabue, Robert P.

Wickliffe, John C.

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Ferguson, H. E. Letters, in possession of Mrs. Howard Jones, Glasgow, Ky.

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Hanson, Roger W. Papers, Library of Congress.

Haydon, Otho. Recollections, in possession of Ruby T. Rabey, Franklin, Ky.

Heustis, J. F. Letter, Kentucky Library, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Ky.

Jackman, John S. Journal, Library of Congress.

Johnston, J. Stoddard. Papers, Filson Club, Louisville, Ky.

Lewis, Joseph H. Scrapbook, in possession of Helene Lewis Gildred, San Diego, Calif.

Marckmann, Mrs. George. Diary, in possession of W. Maury Darst, Galveston, Tex.

Polk, Leonidas. Papers, Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C.

Preston, William. “Memoranda of A. S. Johnston’s Death, Battle of Shiloh &c,” Record Group 94, Box 2, Special File, Item 16, National Archives.

Randolph, A. W. Letters, Kentucky Library, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Ky.

Reed, Grace E. Papers, Franklin, Ky.

Ulmer L. B. “A Glimpse of Johnstone Through the Smoke of Shiloh,” Choctaw County Public Library, Butler, Ala., 1901.

Voucher 4, Dec. 8, 1862, Manuscript 1,526, Record Group 109, National Archives.

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Winstead, Thomas. Papers, in possession of Mr. Thomas D. Winstead, Elizabethtown, Ky.

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Baltimore
American

Frankfort
Weekly Kentucky Yeoman

Lexington, Ky.,
Morning Herald

Lexington
Sunday Leader

Louisville
Courier-Journal

Louisville
Times

New York
Turf, Field & Farm

Richmond
Daily Dispatch

Richmond
Enquirer

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ARTICLES

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—–. “The Washington Artillery in the Army of Tennessee,”
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Champ, Bruce. “Dear Bivouac,”
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“Coffee-boiler Rangers,”
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Duke, Basil W. “Address of General Duke,”
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—–. “The Battle of Hartsville,”
Southern Bivouac
, I, Oct. 1882, pp. 41–51.

“E. P. Thompson,”
Confederate Veteran
, IV, Nov. 1896, p. 368.

“Editorial,”
Southern Bivouac
, I, Sept. 1883, p. 45.

“Editor’s Table,”
Southern Bivouac
, I, New Series, Sept. 1885, p. 255.

Ellis, T. H. “Columbia—As Seen by a Rebel Scouting Party the Day After Sherman’s Evacuation,”
Southern Bivouac
, I, Oct. 1882, pp. 74–78.

“For His Own Side,”
Southern Bivouac
, II, Feb. 1884, p. 277.

Funk, Frank. “Fort Donelson,”
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, I, May–June 1883, pp. 344–46.

“Governor Letcher’s Official Correspondence,”
Southern Historical Society Papers
, I, June 1876, pp. 455–62.

“H.C.S.,”
Southern Bivouac
, I, Dec. 1882, p. 147.

H.H. “Color-bearer of the Fourth Kentucky Infantry,”
Southern Bivouac
, III, Feb. 1885, p. 255.

Horde, H. E. “Recollections of Gen. J. C. Breckinridge,”
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, XVII, Dec. 1909, p. 594.

Jackman, John S. “A Railroad Adventure,”
Southern Bivouac
, I, Nov. 1882, pp. 109–12.

—–. “Battle of Murfreesboro,”
Southern Bivouac
, III, Mar. 1885, pp. 295–99.

—–. “Foraging for Literature,”
Southern Bivouac
, II, June 1884, pp. 457–58.

—–. “From Dalton to Atlanta,”
Southern Bivouac
, I, May–June 1883, pp. 319–28; July 1883, pp. 414–20; Aug. 1883; pp. 451–59.

—–. “Vicksburg in 1862,”
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, III, Sept. 1884, pp. 1–8.

Johnson, E. Polk. “Some Generals I Have Known,”
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, I, New Series, July 1885, pp. 120–22.

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, X, May 1902, pp. 200–1.

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Joyce, Fred [John H. Weller]. “A Hot May-Day at Resaca,”
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, II, July 1884, pp. 499–501.

—–. “A Kitten in Battle,”
Southern Bivouac
, II, July 1884, pp. 522–23.

—–. “Chaplains of the Fourth Kentucky,”
Southern Bivouac
, I, Nov. 1882, pp. 116–18.

—–. “Dalton During the Winter 1863–64,”
Southern Bivouac
, II, June 1884, pp. 463–65.

—–. “From Infantry to Cavalry,”
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, III, Part 1, Dec. 1884, pp. 161–62; Part 2, Jan. 1885, pp. 221–22, Part 3, Feb. 1885, pp. 252–55; Part 4, Mar. 1885, pp. 299–301.

—–. “Georgia Girls,”
Southern Bivouac
, III, Dec. 1884, pp. 159–60.

—–. “Infantry Stampede,”
Southern Bivouac
, II, Jan. 1884, pp. 223–25.

—–. “The Irishmen of Company D, Fourth Kentucky Infantry,”
Southern Bivouac
, II, Feb. 1884, pp. 268–69.

—–. “Letter,”
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, II, Sept. 1883, pp. 30–31.

—–. “The Mother and Two Sons,”
Southern Bivouac
, II, Mar. 1884, pp. 314–15.

—–. “Orphan Brigade at Chickamauga,”
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, III, Sept. 1884, pp. 29–32.

—–. “Orphan Brigade Glee Club,”
Southern Bivouac
, II, May 1884, pp. 413–15.

—–. “Scenes at Dallas,”
Southern Bivouac
, II, May 1884, pp. 376–78.

—–. “The Silent Man of Company D, Fourth Kentucky,”
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, II, Oct. 1883, pp. 76–77.

—–. “Taps,”
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, I, Mar. 1883, pp. 316–18.

—–. “Two Dogs,”
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, I, Oct. 1882, pp. 72–74.

—–. “Why Sue Mundy Became a Guerrilla and Some Facts Concerning His Early Life,”
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, II, Nov. 1883, pp. 124–28.

“Major Thomas H. Hays,”
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, III, Mar. 1885, pp. 333–34.

Marriner, W. N. “The Battle of Missionary Ridge,”
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, II, Jan. 1884, pp. 193–201.

—–. “How Brandy Saved Two Lives,”
Southern Bivouac
, III, Dec. 1884, pp. 164–66.

—–. “Sketch of Lieutenant-General N. B. Forrest, Part 1,”
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, II, Mar. 1884, pp. 289–98.

Marshall, John L. “A Biographical Sketch of the Military Life of the Late Col. T. W. Thompson,”
Southern Bivouac
, I, Sept. 1882, pp. 11–14.

—–. “Captain William Lashbrooke,”
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, I, Feb. 1883, pp. 247–48.

—–. “Heel and Toe,”
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, I, Mar. 1883, pp. 301–5.

“Nondescript” [John L. Marshall]. “Beef Seekers,”
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, I, Oct. 1882, pp. 69–72.

—–. “A Fair Divide,”
Southern Bivouac
, I, Jan. 1883, pp. 214–16.

—–. “Heel and Toe,”
Southern Bivouac
, I, Feb. 1882, pp. 255–59.

—–. “Unrecorded Deeds of Daring,”
Southern Bivouac
, I, Aug. 1883, pp. 471–74.

“Orphan Brigade Items,”
Southern Bivouac
, III, Feb. 1885, p. 273.

“Orphan Brigade Items,”
Southern Bivouac
, III, Mar. 1885, p. 322.

Owens, Thomas. “Standing Picket in a Georgia Swamp,”
Southern Bivouac
, I, Apr. 1883, pp. 330–32.

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, VIII, June–July 1880, pp. 324–32.

“Query Box,”
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, I, Apr. 1883, p. 362.

Ridley, B. L. “Camp Scenes Around Dalton,”
Confederate Veteran
, X, Feb. 1902, pp. 66–68.

“Roll of the First Kentucky Brigade Reunion at Lexington, Kentucky, September 5, 1883,”
Southern Bivouac
, II, Sept. 1883, pp. 16–17.

Scott, J. O. “After Hartsville,”
Southern Bivouac
, I, Nov. 1882, pp. 107–9.

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Scribner’s Magazine
, VIII, Nov. 1890, pp. 650–54.

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, II, May 1894, pp. 137–40.

“Sketch of General B. H. Helm,”
Land We Love
, III, June 1867, pp. 163–67.

“The Skirmish Line,”
Southern Bivouac
, II, Jan. 1884, pp. 236–37.

“Skirmish Line,”
Southern Bivouac
, III, Nov. 1884, p. 133.

“Swift Justice,”
Southern Bivouac
, III, Jan. 1885, p. 214.

“Taps,”
Southern Bivouac
, I, Sept. 1882, pp. 36–40; Oct. 1882, pp. 82–85; Dec. 1882, pp. 178–80; Jan. 1883, pp. 222–24; Feb. 1883, pp. 268–72; II, Nov. 1883, pp. 138–39; Dec. 1883, p. 188.

“Third Reunion of the Kentucky Brigade,”
Southern Bivouac
, III, Nov. 1884, pp. 116–21.

Tydings, J. M. “The Charge of the First Kentucky Brigade at the Battle of Chickamauga,”
Southern Bivouac
, I, Oct. 1882, pp. 62–63.

Watkins, Samuel R., and Jackman, John S. “Battle of Missionary Ridge,”
Southern Bivouac
, II, Oct. 1883, pp. 49–58.

Weller, John H. “The Confederate Dead at Chickamauga,”
Southern Bivouac
, II, Dec. 1883, p. 192.

—–. “The Fourth Kentucky,”
Southern Bivouac
, I, May–June 1882, pp. 346–54.

—–. “History of the Fourth Kentucky Infantry,”
Southern Historical Society Papers
, IX, Mar. 1881, pp. 108–15.

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