| rdfs:comment | - Patrick Ronayne Cleburne (March 17, 1828 - November 30, 1864) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War who was given the nickname "Stonewall of the West," a reference to the nickname of Thomas Jackson. When the American Civil War began, Cleburne joined a volunteer regiment as a private, but his military experience led to his being elected captain of his company. He continued to rise through the ranks from there, ultimately becoming a major general, the highest rank attained by any Confederate officer not born in the United States.
- Patrick Ronayne Cleburne ( ; March 16 or March 17, 1828 – November 30, 1864) was an Irish American soldier, best known for his service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, where he rose to the rank of major general.
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| abstract | - Patrick Ronayne Cleburne (March 17, 1828 - November 30, 1864) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War who was given the nickname "Stonewall of the West," a reference to the nickname of Thomas Jackson. Cleburne was born in County Cork, Ireland, into a family of the Protestant Ascendancy. He served for three years in the British army, then emigrated to the United States, where he settled in Arkansas and worked as a pharmacist and newspaper editor. He became a naturalized citizen in 1860 and gained acceptance in the society of his home town despite a high degree of nativist opinions. (In 1856 he had been wounded in a gunfight by a member of the Know-Nothing Party, whom he killed in self-defense.) When the American Civil War began, Cleburne joined a volunteer regiment as a private, but his military experience led to his being elected captain of his company. He continued to rise through the ranks from there, ultimately becoming a major general, the highest rank attained by any Confederate officer not born in the United States. He commanded a division of the Army of Tennessee during John Bell Hood's disastrous Franklin Campaign in 1864, and was one of many brigade and division commanders killed at the Battle of Franklin, Tennessee, on November 30. Cleburne and the others had been wrongly accused of cowardice by Hood before the battle and exposed themselves to reckless personal danger to clear their names. In the winter of 1863-64, Cleburne, recognizing that the Union's superior manpower was rapidly becoming an insurmountable advatage for the enemy, circulated a letter in which he proposed the Confederate government offer emancipation to any male Negro slave willing to enlist in the Confederate army and fight side by side with white men. Predictably, this proposal was ignored by his superiors. However, the CS government adopted such a policy in the closing weeks of the war.
- Patrick Ronayne Cleburne ( ; March 16 or March 17, 1828 – November 30, 1864) was an Irish American soldier, best known for his service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, where he rose to the rank of major general. Born in County Cork, Ireland, Cleburne served in the 41st Regiment of Foot, a Welsh regiment of the British Army, after failing to gain entrance into Trinity College of Medicine in 1846. He emigrated to the United States three years later. At the beginning of the Civil War, Cleburne sided with the Confederate States. He progressed from being a private soldier in the local militia to a division commander. Cleburne participated in many successful military campaigns, especially the Battle of Stones River and the Battle of Ringgold Gap. His strategic ability gained him the nickname "Stonewall of the West". He was killed in 1864, at the Battle of Franklin.
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