1. Major-General Patrick Ronayne Cleburne was a senior officer in the Confederate States Army who commanded infantry in the Western Theater of the American Civil War.
22 Facts About Patrick Cleburne
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Patrick Cleburne served at Fort Westmorland on Spike Island and was present on the island in 1849 when Queen Victoria visited Cork Harbour.
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At the beginning of the American Civil War, Patrick Cleburne sided with the Confederate States.
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Patrick Cleburne progressed from being a private soldier in the local militia to a division commander.
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Patrick Cleburne participated in many military campaigns, especially the Battle of Stones River, the Battle of Missionary Ridge and the Battle of Ringgold Gap.
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Patrick Ronayne Cleburne was born in Ovens, County Cork, Ireland the second son of Dr Joseph Cleburne, a middle-class physician of Protestant Anglo-Irish ancestry.
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Patrick Cleburne's mother died when he was 18 months old, and he was an orphan at 15.
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Patrick Cleburne followed his father into the study of medicine, but failed his entrance exam to Trinity College of Medicine in 1846.
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Patrick Cleburne served at Fort Westmorland on Spike Island in Cork Harbour, a large fortress that was then being used as a convict depot.
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Three years after joining the British Army, Patrick Cleburne bought his discharge and emigrated to the United States with two brothers and a sister.
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Patrick Cleburne was shot in the back, turned around and shot one of his attackers, killing him.
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The attackers hid until Patrick Cleburne collapsed on the street and then left.
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Patrick Cleburne's choice was not due to any love of slavery, which he claimed not to care about, but out of affection for the Southern people who had adopted him as one of their own.
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Patrick Cleburne led the company in the seizure of the US Arsenal at Little Rock in January 1861.
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Patrick Cleburne's regiment was assigned to the force under William Hardee, training in northeast Arkansas and conducting brief operations in southeast Missouri before Hardee's force was ordered to cross the Mississippi River and join Albert Sidney Johnston's Army of Central Kentucky in the fall 1861.
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Patrick Cleburne was promoted to brigadier general on March 4,1862.
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Patrick Cleburne served at the Battle of Shiloh, leading a brigade on the left side of the Confederate line, as well as at the siege of Corinth.
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In that campaign, Patrick Cleburne was loaned to Edmund Kirby Smith, whose smaller army led the invasion.
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At the Battle of Richmond, Patrick Cleburne was wounded in the face when a minie ball pierced his left cheek, smashed several teeth, and exited through his mouth, but he recovered in time to re-join Hardee and Bragg and participate in the Battle of Perryville.
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Patrick Cleburne argued that emancipation did not have to include black equality, noting that "necessity and wise legislation" would ensure relations between blacks and whites would not materially change.
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Walker eventually persuaded the commander of the Army of Tennessee, General Braxton Bragg, that Patrick Cleburne was politically unreliable and undeserving of further promotion.
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Patrick Cleburne was last seen, after his horse was shot out from under him, advancing with his sword raised on foot toward the Union line.