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A Meteor Shining Brightly
Essays on Major General Patrick R. Cleburne
Mauriel Phillips Joslyn, editor
In this collection of well-written and lucid essays, the life, career, and impact of Irish Major General Patrick R. Cleburne is definitively reassessed. A Meteor Shining Brightly corrects inaccuracies in published accounts of Cleburne’s life, and explores aspects of Cleburne’s life that made him unique among Civil War generals.
This collection of essays by various historians covers Cleburne’s life from his immigration as a young man to the United States, his experiences becoming a self-made man in Arkansas, and how he joined the Confederate Army to defend the state in which he and his family had been given a fresh start. His rise through the ranks was limited because he had advocated arming slaves to support the Confederate cause. He died during an impossible charge on Franklin, Tennessee and Jefferson Davis honored him with the nickname, "Stonewall of the West."
Mauriel Phillips Joslyn was honored as Georgia Writer of the Year for this book. Her previous books include Immortal Captives: The Story of 600 Confederate Officers and the US Prisoner of War Policy, Charlotte’s Boys: The Civil War Letters of the Branch Family of Savannah, 1861-1865, and Valor and Lace: Roles of Confederate Women, 1861-1865.
Contributors: Frederick H. Bohmfalk, William Pettus Buck, Thomas Y. Cartwright, Mark M. Hull, Carl H. Moneyhon, Anne Ruisi, Alethea D. Sayers, William Lee White, and Mauriel Phillips Joslyn.
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