The Orphan Brigade: The Kentucky Confederates Who Couldn't Go Home

The brigade (in the Civil War, from 5000 to 2000 men or so depending on the stage of the war) of Kentuckians who fought for the Confederacy. Kentucky being occupied relatively early in the war, they fought on far from home through the war.

• Diary of a Confederate Soldier: John S. Jackman of the Orphan Brigade (American Military History Series)
• Jack Hinson's One-Man War, A Civil War Sniper
• Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson
• Mosby's Rangers
• Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
• Reminiscences of a Soldier of the Orphan Brigade
• Ten Months in the "Orphan Brigade": Conrad Wise Chapman's Civil War Memoir
• The First Battle of Manassas: An End to Innocence, July 18-21, 1861
• Bust Hell Wide Open: The Life of Nathan Bedford Forrest
• Jefferson Davis: The Man and His Hour