Nancy you might want to submit this article to the Orphan Brigade home page if you have not already done so. Geoff Waldon the owner of the site might be interested in posting it to his page. <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~orphanhm/">First Kentucky (Orphan) Brigade Homepage</A> Thank you for sharing it with us I too have 3 relatives that fought with the Orphan Brigade and find it very interesting when I come across any thing about them. Bernadette In a message dated 7/24/02 5:43:14 PM Eastern Daylight Time, NFMich@aol.com writes: > In a Kentucky newspaper, the Lebanon Enterprise, of Friday, June 16, 1905, > this article was published. > > "Now that the people are looking forward to the great Confederate reunion > at > Louisville, there is a great deal of talk among old soldiers about the > things > that happened in the sixties, says the Elizabethtown News. In a > conversation > with a group of them Monday we learned that the youngest soldier in the > famous Orphan Brigade was Mr. Henry Harned, living at Boston and well known > > to most our people. He enlisted in 1861 at the age of 16 and was one of the > > bravest and best soldiers in this remarkable brigade. he was in every > battle > with this incomparable command and stood where shot and shell frequently > mowed down his comrades in great numbers, yet never got a scratch during > the > entire war. Ed Porter Thompson in his history of the brigade, speaks of him > > by name as one of the very bravest and best soldiers and as there was > another > Henry Harned, he was known throughout the brigade as "Little Henry". There > were six Harneds in the Confederate army. Four of them were killed in > battle, > one lost an arm. He will attend the reunion In Louisville and expects to > meet > a number of his old comrades." > > Henry Sprigg Harned, son of Henry Harned II and Charlotte Johnson, was born > > on Novemeber 9th, 1843, at Boston, Kentucky. he was five feet eight inches > tall with blue eyes and dark hair. At eighteen, he enlisted on October 10, > 1861, in Company H. 6th Regiment of the Kentucky Mounted Infantry in the > Confederate Army at Bowling Green, KY. "Little Henry" fought at Shiloh, > Vicksburg, Baton Rouge, Stone River, Jackson, Chickamauga, Rocky Face > Ridge, > Resaca, and Dallas... > > He lost three brothers in the conflict: 2nd Sgt. William Harned at > Murpheesboro, John at Corinth, Miss, and 1st Lieut. Frank at Intrenchment > Creek. > > >