We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/05/pappy_hays_orph.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:18:49 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification The Armorer, as he has mentioned, is the namesake for a family member who was a veteran of the Orphan Brigade, the Kentucky Confederates. And the blood runs strong. Pappy and I share a taste for tweaking. Especially members of the 4th Estate. Pappy was an original joiner of the Brigade, and was with them to the bitter end of the Great Unpleasantness that was our Civil War. The Brigade fought in most of the big battles in the West (almost all losses for the South) and was, over time, effectively destroyed. The only real win in their column was... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/05/pappy_hays_orph.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/05/pappy_hays_orph.html Sat, 23 May 2009 07:46:04 -0600 Pappy is A.B. Hays, Company A of the 2nd Kentucky. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/05/pappy_hays_orph.html#comment-89078 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/05/pappy_hays_orph.html#comment-89078 Sun, 24 May 2009 08:04:22 -0600 http://www.archive.org/details/orphanbrigadeed00thomrich

History of the Orphan brigade (1898)
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Co. D, 5th Ky. Inf.
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