The FReeper Foxhole Profiles General Patrick Cleburne - Aug. 30th, 2004

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[SAMWolf]

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General Patrick Ronayne Cleburne
<1828 - 1864)

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Patrick Ronayne Cleburne was born in Ovens, County Cork, Ireland on March 16, 1828. The second son of Dr. Joseph Cleburne, the only physician in the locale, Patrick grew up in comfortable, middle class surroundings and privilege. However life was not without its tragedy. His mother died when he was eighteen months old, and by the time the boy reached age fifteen, his father had also died. He pursued the family tradition of studying medicine, but failed the entrance exam to Trinity College in February 1846. Pride and his sense of honor led him to enlist in the 41st Regiment of Foot of the British Army to escape his failure. Three and one half years later, he bought his discharge and came to America with two brothers and an older sister. He settled in Helena, Arkansas, in 1850, first as a druggist until he became a naturalized citizen. In 1856 he began the practice of law, and was senior partner with Cleburne, Scaife and Mangum by 1860.

Cleburne joined the Yell Rifles of Phillips as a private, and was soon elected Captain of the company. From this position he rose swiftly in rank, through the early months of the war and became Colonel of the 1st Arkansas. When Gen. William J. Hardee was put in command of Confederate troops in Arkansas, he quickly recognized the gem he had in an officer, and secured Cleburne’s promotion to Brigadier General on March 4, 1862.

Shiloh, the Kentucky Campaign and Murfreesboro were ahead for Patrick Cleburne. He was severely wounded in the mouth at Richmond, Ky. on August 30. Returning to duty in time to participate in the Battle of Perryville on October 8, he proved his capability in a charge on the field that led to Confederate victory. After the Battle of Murfreesboro, Tennessee December 31and January 1, 1863, Cleburne was promoted to Major General.



Through the campaigns of 1863, Cleburne became more outspoken along with his superior and mentor William J. Hardee on the incompetence of Gen. Braxton Bragg. After the Battle of Chickamauga and the Chattanooga Campaign, Cleburne achieved lasting military fame for his defense of Tunnel Hill on Missionary Ridge in Tennessee and at the Battle of Ringgold Gap in North Georgia. His brilliant tactical command in the use of his small force, and strategic utilization of terrain remain among the most compelling in military history to study.

Always pensive and observant, he realized the deplorable state of morale in the army, and the straitened conditions of the Confederacy in general were working against the goal of independence. He had a solution which he earnestly believed would turn the tide in favor of the South, both militarily and politically, and on January 3, 1864, he met with Gen. Joseph Johnston and other high command personalities in Dalton, Georgia to read his proposal on emancipating the slaves and enlisting them in the Confederate army. His concept was shocking to some, endorsed by others, but ultimately rejected by President Jefferson Davis at the urging of his military advisor in Richmond, Braxton Bragg.


General Patrick Cleburne, CSA, at Chickamauga
September 20, 1863

Patrick Cleburne accepted his superiors’ suggestions to suppress his proposal on enlisting slaves, and accompanied his friend William J. Hardee as best man to Hardee’s wedding in Demopolis, Alabama. Cleburne met Susan Tarleton, the 24-year-old daughter of a Mobile, Alabama planter, and was love struck. He proposed to her before his ten-day furlough was up, and she agreed to become engaged to him. The spring of 1864 began military operations, which culminated in the Atlanta Campaign. Patrick Cleburne fought valiantly at every battle, from the opening shots at Rocky Face Gap until the end at Jonesboro in August. He received no other promotions, though vacancies occurred for corps commander. He was distressed when Hood replaced Joe Johnston as commander-in-chief of the Army of Tennessee, and marched his division north with the army in the Tennessee Campaign. In a desperate assault on Union breastworks at Franklin, Tennessee on November 30, 1864, Patrick Cleburne was killed in action beside his men. He was buried at St. John’s Church near Mount Pleasant, Tennessee. In April 1870, his remains were disinterred and brought back to Helena, Arkansas, where he was reburied in an impressive ceremony in Evergreen Confederate Cemetery. His fiancée Susan Tarleton, married a classmate of her brother’s, but died of a swelling of the brain on June 30, 1868.

[snippy_about_it]

Cleburne was an Irishman.

And good lookin' too. :-)

I'll put Cleburne and Bedford Forrest in my bicyclespankentruppen.

[snippy_about_it]

Awwww. Thank you so much Matt. Above all else we cannot let J F'ng Kerry win.

[SAMWolf]

Thanks you Matt.

[Professional Engineer]

Has a touch of Blarney, does she?

[SAMWolf]

Happily, so far not a single US Flag has been burnt in Poland.

I wish I could say the same about my own Country. :-(

[SAMWolf]

And an Irish temper! ;-)

[Valin]

Rudolph Giuliani's Speech

After careful consideration and much sober thought one word discribes this speech.




WOW!!!

[snippy_about_it]

LOL. Don't bother wasting a brain cell on Kerry, that's about all he has.

[snippy_about_it]

And an Irish temper! ;-)

Guilty as charged. :-(

But I do have a twinkle in my eye and since you always say I'm crazy, we'll blame that on the blarney. :-)

[Valin]

Don't bother wasting a brain cell on Kerry, that's about all he has.

Now you shouldn't say things like that....even if they are true.

Don't worry John I'll defend you. Sure people say you're dumber than a small pile of rock, well I say you're every bit as smart as any pile of rocks I'VE ever seen. and smarter than at least 35-40% of any pile of rocks anyone could mention.

[snippy_about_it]

:-)

[PhilDragoo]

A Meteor Shining Brightly: Essays on Maj. Gen Patrick R. Cleburne

Cleburne's breakthrough concept of freeing the slaves to serve as soldiers fell on barren soil.

An earlier execution would have enhanced manpower for the south and pulled a bathtub stopper on northern motivation.

Cleburne was similarly adept at generalship.

"A single bullet through the heart. . . ."

I keep a Minie ball to Queeg at such times as this--it's surely the equivalent of Dirty Harry's Magnum.

"A single bullet through the heart. . . ."

Yes, but this "single bullet" weighs as much as an intact 7.62 x 39 that some banger dropped in the road.

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Don King is not only down for Republicans--he has much better hair than John Fifth Kolumn.

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[SAMWolf]

Evening Phil Dragoo.

The first time I saw a minie ball I was surprised at how big it was.

I'll bet that Don King doesn't spend as much money on his hait as Kerry though. ;-)

We should get lucky enough for Jaws to do a Quint on KErry

[Iris7]

1781 French fleet of 24 ships under Comte de Grasse defeat British under Admiral Graves at battle of Chesapeake Capes in Revolutionary War

The Americans would have lost the war, likely, if the French had not driven off Cornwallis' naval cover, and Cornwallis would not have surrendered at Yorktown. Truth.

[Iris7]

Thank you, Matthew Paul. (Most excellent name - the Rock and the Evangelist to the Gentiles.)

The Poles beat the Germans and then the Russians in my lifetime. Yesterday it was Friedrich Barbarossa, Catherine the Great, the Teutonic Knights, the Prussians, and the Swedes. Not to mention the long, long war with the Mongols, the Turks. Long may Poland's people, the Nation of the Poles, be proud and free.

[Iris7]

"I'll put Cleburne and Bedford Forrest in my bicyclespankentruppen."

You get those boys in your outfit you will have to take me too. I will not be refused. Not much use in dying in bed!

The women in your truppen pictures are all very young. War is not for young women. Men are what you need, young ones. And old ones with a true sense of honor. If women want to come they of course will not be refused, but they must know what they are getting into.

I keep waiting for the old war I remember so well to start up again, start up where it should have been fought in the first place, here in the USA. Cleburne and Forrest would be a Godsend.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[snippy_about_it]

Amen to all you say here Iris7. I wonder if it will be in my lifetime. I'd be happy to have you along with Cleburne, Bedford and many others on our side. :-)

[Iris7]

Snippy, your reply warmed my heart. We could do good work in a good outfit. The war is nearly here, looks like ten or twenty years to this old student of war. Lots of things can turn it on or off, and the President has plans.