This column is not dated but was in a Glasgow KY newspaper. At Cave City Sunday. General Lewis Saddle Will Be Shown At Commeration. "A relic of unusual historical and sentimental interest to be shown at the "Orphan Brigade" program Sunday at 2 pm at the Cave City Elementary school grounds, will be the actual saddle that General Joseph H. Lewis, distinguished commander of the famed brigade, used during his troop recruiting and training there. It was also the saddle on which he rode away to lead this brigade into combat in the southern states. "The saddle has been preserved by Mrs. W. P. Coffman [now deceased, Sandi], whose home is the last home occupied by General Lewis before he moved to Scott County in 1891, while serving as Chief Justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals. Now more than one hundred years old, the saddle shows the wear and tear of hard service and time, but still remains intact, stout and staunch. The parking lot entrance is on the north side of the school front campus, on Highway 31-W. "Parents are urged to bring their children who havae a lively interest in the Civil War. Here they will see, for the first time, Glasgow's Confederate Color Guard, in authentic Confederate uniforms and antique muskets composed of Charles B. Honeycutt [Mayor, deceased], Carl Weis [deceased] and John Simmons. the Civil War guns will be fired in Miliary Salute. "Taps will be sounded on the antique bugle of Bandmaster Honeycutt. It is of the type first introduced by Napoleon and imported to the U. S. about 1815. A group from the Glasgow Scottie Band will play. "A hotbed of seething sentiments, Barren County witnessed far more of the earliest state Civil War activity than published histories have accorded it. It may yet be proved that the first state Federal fatality occurred at Park, where 10 members of the Orphan Brigade routed a whole Federal troop in a night skirmist staged in a ghostly graveyard. The L & N Railroad was captured, bridges and roads in the Green River Valley were reduced to rubble more than once, while the Confederates rushed to build their line of defence [sic] against invaders and most of them recruits from this area. "Both armies camped more than once on Barren's soil, with many skirmishes. Barren County Historical Society President Charles E Winninger [deceased, Wininger], and son, Ken, will be in charge of Civil War relics, including their 10 pound cannon ball, from the "Old Fort" at Glasgow, and a variety of "minnie balls" found on their own lands. Anyone having interesting Civil War relics is invited to join their display. "Entrance to the large parking lot at rear of the school is found on 31-W, with the Cave City Boy Scouts directing parking so that cars may enter and leave at will. Strains of "Lay Me Away With the Boys in Gray" and Confederate military marches will set the mood, as visitors approach the front campus, where a host will guide everyone to the registration table. There, green badges for Orphan Brigade relativers and white badges for relatives of Gen. Lewis family should be picked up for a special chair section. Older people may be seated in the other chair section. Many will prefer to stand and circulate with friends. "If you donj't know wheteher you had an "Orphan Brigade" relative, look for the published list elsewhere in this same issue. [I don't have]. If you don't find the one you're looking for here, maybe he was in "Morgan's Men", to whom a marker will be dedicated in the future. [there is a marker on the square in Glasgow]. "The program will include little known personal historic incidents. The actual proclamation issed by Gen. Lewis on opening his camp will be read. It briefly and bitterly explains the events that tore Kentucky's intended neutrality to shreds. The list of battle victories, which credits the Orphan Brigade with more victories than any one body of men in the entire Confederacy, will be given. Barren County's own "Old Reb", John A. Murray, who erected the Confederate monument in the courthouse yard, will be portrayed at a Confederate reunion, by reading a poem eulogizing the gallant veterans, which he read, that swung the gathered veterans to their feet in a resounding "Rebel Yell". The poem was written for the occasion by Mrs. Ida Goldsmith Morris, one of Glasgow's most talented and beloved woman of her era. "The program will be concluded by 3:00 p.m, so that those planning to attend the "Open House" of the First Federal Savings and Loans Association in Glasgow, will have plenty of time to do so. A warm welcome awaits the public at Cave City, extended by its Mayor I. F. Gardner. Dn't miss this Barren County episode in the nation's most famous "Lost Cause", that wouldn't get lost but persists in living on in the heart, past the milestones of more than a century." [Photo of General Joseph H. Lewis]. Sandi SCKY Links: http://www.public.asu.edu/~moore/Gorin.html GGP: http://ggpublishing.tripod.com/