Ed
Porter
Thompson

Civil War Confederate Army Officer, Historian. He drew on his war time service to publish the classic 1898 work the "History of the Orphan Brigade", which detailed the experiences of the brigade of Confederate infantry from Kentucky he served in. Born Metcalfe County, Kentucky, he joined the Confederate Army after the outbreak of the Civil War, and was mustered in as a Sergeant in Company F, 6th Kentucky (CSA) Infantry. Wounded at the April 1862 Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee, he was promoted to 1st Lieutenant after his recovery. At the December 1862 Battle of Stone's River he was again wounded and was captured by Union forces. When he was exchanged, he was promoted to Captain. Following the Civil War he served as State Librarian of Kentucky from 1888 to 1890, and as private secretary for Kentucky Governor and former Confederate Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner. He followed that with a stint as Superintendent of Public Instruction for Kentucky from 1891 to 1896 and served as President of the Frankfort Board of Education. In 1868 he published a history of the brigade in which his regiment served entitled, "History of the First Kentucky Brigade", which was the basis for his later, more famous work.

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