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050 0 0 _aE 467.1.C58
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100 1 _aSymonds, Craig L.
245 1 0 _aStonewall of the West :
_bPatrick Cleburne and the Civil War /
_cCraig L. Symonds.
260 _aLawrence, Kan. :
_bUniversity Press of Kansas,
_cc1997.
300 _axi, 322 p. :
_bill., maps ;
_c24 cm.
490 1 _aModern war studies
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 303-314) and index.
505 0 _aPat Cleburne's Ireland -- Helena, Arkansas -- Command -- First blood: Shiloh -- The Kentucky Campaign -- Cleburne's division -- War and politics -- Barren victory: the Battle of Chickamauga -- Stonewall of the west -- "A plan which we believe will save our country" -- From Dalton to the Chattahoochee -- The battles for Atlanta -- The last crusade.
520 _aTo Jefferson Davis, he was the "Stonewall of the West"; to Robert E. Lee he was "a meteor shining from a clouded sky"; and to Braxton Bragg, he was an officer "ever alive to a success." He was Patrick Ronayne Cleburne, one of the greatest of all Confederate field commanders. In Stonewall of the West, Craig Symonds offers the first full-scale critical biography of this compelling figure. He explores all the sources of Cleburne's commitment to the Southern cause, his.
520 _agrowth as a combat leader from Shiloh to Chickamauga, and his emergence as one of the Confederacy's most effective field commanders at Missionary Ridge, Ringgold Gap, and Pickett's Mill. In addition, Symonds unravels the "mystery" of Spring Hill and recounts Cleburne's dramatic and untimely death (at the age of 36) at Franklin, Tennessee, where he charged the enemy line on foot after having had two horses shot from under him. Symonds also explores Cleburne's role in the.
520 _acomplicated personal politics of the Army of Tennessee, as well as his astonishing proposal that the decimated Confederate ranks be filled by ending a slavery and arming blacks against the Union.
600 1 0 _aCleburne, Patrick Ronayne,
_d1828-1864.
650 0 _aGenerals
_zConfederate States of America
_vBiography.
610 1 0 _aConfederate States of America.
_bArmy
_vBiography.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xHistory
_yCivil War, 1861-1865
_xCampaigns.
651 0 _aGeorgia
_xHistory
_yCivil War, 1861-1865.
651 0 _aTennessee
_xHistory
_yCivil War, 1861-1865.
651 0 _aHelena (Ark.)
_vBiography.
776 0 8 _iOnline version:
_aSymonds, Craig L.
_tStonewall of the West.
_dLawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c1997
_w(OCoLC)606143274
830 0 _aModern war studies.
856 4 2 _3Book review (H-Net)
_uhttp://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0a0f6-aa
999 _c130259
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