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To: epicure who wrote (6841)	4/27/1997 1:08:00 AM
From: JF Quinnelly	of 108807

I have a print on my wall of Gen'l Breckenridge and "The Orphan Brigade" charging through a peach orchard at the battle of Shiloh. The Orphan Brigade was a Kentucky outfit that became "orphaned" when the Union army invaded and occupied Kentucky. No particular relation to me, my own ancestors charged through a different peach orchard at Gettysburg. The 13th Mississippi broke the Union line late on the second day of battle, after a spectacular charge led by one General Barksdale. If Longstreet had been able to support this break, he could have flanked Meade and the weight of the Confederate attack would have fallen on the thin part of the Union line. I have the service records of some of my relatives. JD Stroud, my grandmother's uncle, was killed in action and buried in the field, somewhere in the peach orchard at Gettysburg. Stephen Quinnelly fought in the Alabama regiments that assaulted Little Round Top that same evening. He was in his 40s, and fought the whole length of the war, surrendering at Appamatox. Like many of the officers he served under, he was a veteran of Mexican War.

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