BY ITS ADJUTANT GENERAL, G. B. HODGE. FRANKFORT, KY. PRINTED AT THE KENTUCKY YEOMAN OFFICE. MAJOR & JOHNSTON. 1874. TO GENERAL JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE, ITS NOBLE COMMANDER, TO THE GALLANT SURVIVORS, AND TO THE MEMORY OF THE IMMORTAL DEAD OF THE BRIGADE, THIS SKETCH IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED....

In the general history which will go down to posterity of such immense bodies of men as were gathered under the banners of the Confederate States of America, it is not likely that more than a brief and cursory reference can or will be made to the services of so small a force as composed the First Kentucky Brigade. Yet the anomalous position which it occupied, in regard to the revolution, in having revolted against both State and Federal authority, exiling itself from home, from fortune, from kin