Civil War
On the recommendation of Simon B. Buckner, Breckinridge was commissioned as a brigadier general in the Confederate Army on November 2, 1861. He was given command of the 1st Kentucky Brigade, nicknamed the Orphan Brigade because its men felt orphaned by Kentucky's Unionist state government. The brigade was in Buckner's 2nd Division under the command of Albert Sidney Johnston in Bowling Green, Kentucky. For several weeks, he trained his troops in the city, and he also participated in the organization of a provisional Confederate government for the state. Although not sanctioned by the legislature in Frankfort, its existence prompted the Confederacy to admit Kentucky on December 10, 1861.
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