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Lot D. Young
1842–1926
A Kentucky soldier’s vivid firsthand account of the Civil War, filled with battlefield memories, wartime hardship, and reflections on the famed Orphan Brigade. His memoir offers a personal window into the experiences of a young Confederate soldier and the generation that followed.
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Reminiscences of a Soldier of the Orphan Brigade
by Lot D. Young
About the author
Lot D. Young (1842–1926) was a Kentucky soldier and writer from Paris, Kentucky. He joined the Flat Rock Grays as a young man and later served with the Fourth Kentucky of the Confederate States Army, part of the Orphan Brigade.
Wounded at Jonesboro on August 31, 1864, Young spent several months recovering in hospitals before attempting to return to his command. Decades later, he gathered his memories into Reminiscences of a Soldier of the Orphan Brigade, a personal account of battles including Shiloh, Vicksburg, Murfreesboro, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, and Atlanta.
Young described the book as a collection of recollections intended to entertain and encourage young Kentucky soldiers serving in World War I. His writing combines military history with intimate stories of comradeship, injury, fear, endurance, and the lasting emotional weight of war.