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Hymn to the Dawn.
BY A. J. RXQUIEIt.
From an ominous rift in the pitiless sty,
That has darkened our desolate land,
Springs a luminous rill of auriferous dye,
Gushing out of a mystical hand ;
Upon Talleys of carnage, and mountains of fire—
On the heaps of the holily slain—
It descends with the rush of a resonant lyre,
And the gleam of a magical rain.
It unveils from the depths of its fountains of blue,
Such a blaze of bewildering light,
As the legions of Araby never yet drew
From the stars of traditional night;
Purple acres of grapes, and savannas of snow,
Full of streams that enrichingly run
Through the fairest of blooms which the tropics
bestow,
On the flowering brides of the Sun.
Noblo structures of commerce, and riches of art,
Stately temples, and towers between,
Fretted domes soaring up from the dust of the mart 4
Where the wonders of science are seen; *
Fluted pillars and urns, to the primitive past,
And its young representative scions,
And bronzes heroic, colossaHy vast
As the winged Assyrian Lions!
Oh, I see the long stretch of thy sorrowing years,
Clime of azure ! transformed in my sight,
From the comfortless drops of thine anguishing tears
Into dews of eternal delight;
Royal anthems resounding on odorous seas,
Sceptred barges that bridally toss,
With their bright waving pennons unfurl'd to th*
breezo
In the blush of a tremulous Cross!
Green idol of childhood! engirded by strife
With a glory;—the grandest of Old,
Could they dream of the toils which encompass thy
life,
Would cry out from their cryptical mould.
God anointed in War and exalted in Peace,
I behold thee abroad and at home,
With the beautiful lips of Republican Greece,
And the brow of Imperial Rome!
BIOGRAPHIC SKETCH OF MAJ. GEN’L
PATRICK R, CLEBURNE.
[by GENERAL W. J. HARDEE.]
The sketch is necessarily imperfect, from
the want of official records. Most of these
were lost or destroyed by the casualties
attending the close of the late war ; and
those still in existence are difficult of ac
cess. Os Cleburne’s early life little is
known—the record of his service in the
Southern armies belongs to the yet unwrit
ten history of “the lost cause.” In better
days, when the passions and prejudices
engendered by civil strife shall have disap
peared, aud history brings in a dispassion
ate verdict, the name of Cleburne will ap
pear High in the lists of patriots and war
riors. Until then, his best record is in the
hearts of his adopted countrymen.
With brief exceptions Cleburne served
under my command during his military ca
reer. He succeeded first to the brigade,
and then to the division which I had pre
viously commanded ; and it is to me a
grateful recollection, that circumstances
enabled me to further his advancement
to those important trusts. From personal
knowledge, therefore, gained in ail inter
course and observation extending through
a period of nearly four years, I can give
you an outline sketch of Cleburne’s char
acter and services. •
Patrick Ronayne Cleburne was an Irish
man by birth, a Southerner by adoption
and residence, a lawyer by profession; a
soldier in the British army, by accident,
in his youth ; and a soldier in the Southern
armies, from patriotism and conviction of
duty, in his manhood. Upon coining to
the United States he located at Helena.
Arkansas, where he studied and practised
law.
In that profession he had previous to the
great struggle, formed a co-partnership
with General T. C. Hindman. His stand
ing as a lawyer was high, as indicated by
this association with a gentleman distin
guished as an orator and advocate.
It was at this period of his life that, in
the unorganised and turbulent condition of
society, incident to a newly settled country,
he established a reputation for courage and
firmness, which w r as afterwards approved
by a still more trying ordeal. In the com
mencement of the war for Southern Inde
pendence, lie enlisted as a private, lie was
subsequently made captain of his company,
and shortly after he was elected ahd com
missioned colonel of his regiment. Thus,
from one grade to another, he gradually
rose to the high rank he held when he fell.
It is but some praise to say. there was no
truer patriot, no more courageous soldier,
nor, of his rank, more able commander, in
the Southern armies; and it is not too
much to add that his fall was a greater
loss to the cause he espoused than that of
any other Confederate leader after Stone
wall Jackson. In the camp of the army
which Albert Sydney Johnston assembled
at Bowling Green, Kentucky, m the
autumn of 1801, Cleburne had an •ppor
tunity, in the drill and organization of the
raw troops, of which that army was then
composed, of proving his qualifications as a
disciplinarian and commander. His natural
abilities in this respect had probably been
fostered by his early tuition in the British
army ; and upon his becoming a soldier a
second time, were perfected by unremitting
study and labor. These qualities secured
his promotion to brigadier-general. In
April, 1802, Albert Sydney Johnston con
centrated his forces at Corinth, Mississippi,
to attack General Grant, who had landed
an army at Pittsburg, on the Tennessee
River, which was now encamped near
Shiloh Church, about three miles from the
landing. The attack was made on the
morning of the 6th of April. Cleburne’s
brigade was of my corps, which formed
the front line of attack. The enemy were
steadily driven for three miles through
their encampments, past the rich spoils
with which a luxurious soldiery had sur
rounded themselves, and over the heaps of
their dead and dying, until the broken and
demoralised masses sought the shelter of
th« river’s banks, and the cover of their
gunboats. Albert Sydney Johnston had
fallen in action about 2 o’clock p. in. Ilis
successor in command, General Beaure
gard, deemed it best, late in the evening,
to recall the pursuit. At the moment of
recall, Cleburne was passing on, within
400 yards of Pittsburg Landing, behind
the cliffs of which cowered the masses of
hopeless and helpless fugitives. That night
the enemy were reinforced by the arrival
of a fresh army under Buell; and, on the
evening of the 7th, the Southern forces,
after maintaining, through tho day, the
now unequal struggle, withdrew, unpur
sued, to Corinth. In this battle Cleburne’s
brigade sustained a heavier loss in killed
and wounded than any other in tlie army.
At the initiation of Gen. Bragg’s Ken
tucky campaign, in the summer of 1862,
Cleburne’s brigade with olieother, was de
tached and united with Kirby Smith’s col
umn, which, starting from Knoxville,
Tennessee, was to penetrate Kentucky
through Cumberland Gap, and form a
junction with the main army under Gen
eral Bragg, which moved from Chatta
nooga into Kentucky by a different route.
Kirby Smith’s forces encountered opposi
tion at Richmond, Kentucky, in Septem
ber. There Cleburne directed the first
days fighting, and in his first handling of
an independent command was mainly in
strumental in winning a victory, which, in
the number of prisoners and amount of
stores captured, and in the utter dispersion
and destruction of the opposing force, was
one of the most complete of the war.
For “gallant and meritorious service” her©,
he received an official vote of thanks from
the Congress of the Confederate States.
In this action he received a singular
wound. The missile, a minnie rifle ball,
entered the aperture of the mouth while
his mouth was open, in the act of giving
a command to the troops in action, without
touching his lips, and passed out of the left
cheek, carrying away in its course five
lower teeth, without touching or injuring
the bone. This wound did not prevent his
taking part in the battle of Perry ville on
tha Bth of October following, where he re
joined my command, and was again
wounded while leading his brigade-in a
gallant charge.
An incident occurred in the march out
of Kentucky, which will serve to illustrate
Cleburne’s indomitable will and energy.
On the road selected for the passage of
ordnance and supply trains of the army,
was a very difficult hill, at which the
trains unable to pass over it, or to go
round it, came to a dead halt. The enemy
were pressing the rear, the trains were im
moveable, and nothing seemed left but to
destroy them, to prevent their falling into
the hands of the enemy ; orders had ac
tually been given tor their destruction,
when Cleburne, who was disabled and off
duty on account of his wound, came up.
He asked and was given unlimited author
ity in the premises. He at once stationed
guards in the road, arrested every strag
gler and passing officer and soldier, col
lected a large force, organised fatigue
parties, and literally lifted the trains over
the hills. The trains thus preserved con
tained munitions and subsistence of the
utmost value and necessity to the Confed
erates. It is by no means certain even
that the army could have made its subse
quent long march through a sterile and
wasted country without them.
In December 1863, General Bragg con
centrated his army at Murfreesboro, Ten
nessee, to oppose the Federal forces assem
bled at Nashville under Rosecrans. At
this time, Major-General Buckner, then
commanding the division of which Cle
ourne’s brigade formed a part, was trans
ferred to other service, aud the President
of the Confederate States, who was on a
visit to the army at that time, promoted
Cleburne to the vacant division. Rose
crans’ advance upon Bragg brought on the
battle of Murfreesboro, Dec. 31, 1862. In
the action of this day Cleburne s was one
of the two divisions under my command,
which attacked the right wing ot the Fed
eral army under McCook. .This wing was
beaten and driven three miles, until its ex
treme right was doubled hack upon the
centre of the Federal army. During the
day, Cleburne’s division in single line ot
battle, without reinforcement, rest, or re
freshment, encountered and drove bemio
it five successive lines of battle, which the
Federal commander-in-chief withdrew from
his intact centre and left to reinforce his
broken right. Tho general results oi tne
day were not decisive in favor ot tHo
Southern arms; but this heightens the
achievement of that portion ot the army
which was successful, and the merit of the
officer whose skilful handling ot his divi
sion contributed materially to that success.
From the battle of Murfreesboro to that
of Cliickamuaga, in September, 1863, mili
tary operations in the army with winch
Cleburne was connected were of a desul
tory and undecisive character. But out
post duty in close proximity to an enemy
superior in numbers, afforded Cleburne
occasion for the exercise of his high sol
dierly qualities of vigilance and activity.
In the advance from Tullahoma to IVar
trace, and the subsequent retirement of the
army to Chattanooga, his division habitu
ally formed the vanguard in advance and
the rearguard in retreat. The battle of
Chickamauga—an Indian name which sig
nifies “the river of death” —wrote the
bloodiest page in the history ot Western
battles. General Bragg, reinforced by
Longstreet’s corps front Virginia, on the
19th and 20th of September, engaged and,
after an obstinate contest, defeated Rose
crans’ army, which, routed and demor
alised, retreated within its line ot works
at Chattanooga. In this battle Cleburne s
division bore its usual prominent part; a
charge made by it,fin the struggle tor posi
tion in the adjustment of lines on the
Saturday evening preceding the Sunday’s
final conflict, is described as especially
magnificent and effective.
The Confederate forces soon after occu
pied Missionary Ridge, and partially in
vested Chattanooga, with the object of
cutting off the supplies of the army within
its lines. The attempt was but partially
successful. Meantime the Federal gov
ernment despatched General Grant to suc
ceed Rosecrans in command, and recalled
Sherman’s army from Mississippi to rein
force him. On the 24th of November,
Grant, reinforced by Sherman, attacked
Bragg, weakened by the detachment of
Longstreet’s corps, and carried the posi
tion of the Confederate left on Lookout
Mountain. On the 25th a general attack
was made upon the Confederate line. The
right wing, under my command, consisted
of four divisions—Cleburne’s on the ex
treme right. The attacking force in this
part of the field was commanded by Gen
eral Sherman. The enemy made repeated
and vigorous assaults, which were repelled
with heavy loss to the assailants. Cle
burne’s position on tho right was most in
secure, troin its liability to bo turned. He
maintained it with his accustomed ability,
and upon the repulse of the last assault,
directed in persona countercharge, which
effected the capture of a large number of
prisoners and several stands of colors.
The assailants gave up the contest and
withdrew from our front. But while the
cheers of victory raised on the right were
extending down the lino, the left of the
army had been carried by assault, and the
day was lost. All that now remained to
the victorious right was to cover the > >-
treat of the army. This it did successfully.
If the right, instead of the left of the army,
had been carried, it would have given tho
enemy possession of tho only line of re
treat, ar and no organised body of tho Con
federate army could have escaped. In the
gloom of night fall, Cleburne’s division,
the last to retire, sadly withdrew from tho
ground it held co gallantly, and brought up
the rear of the retiring army.
The enemy next clay organised a vigor
ous puj>uit; aud on the morning of tho
second day, its advance, Hooker’s corps,
came up with Cleburne at Ringgold Gap.
The enemy moved to attack, what they
supposed a demoralized force, with great
confidence. Cleburne had made skilful dis
positions to receive the attack, and re
pulsed it with such serious loss that pur
suit was abandoned, and the pursuing force
returned to its lines. Here Cleburne again
received the thanks of Congress for meri
torious conduct.
The Southern army now went into win
ter quarters at Dalton, in North Georgia.
Cleburne’s division occupied an outpost at
Tunnel Hill. He devoted the winter
months to the discipline and instruction
of his troops, and revived a previously
adopted system of daily recitations in tac
tics and the art of war. He himself heard
the recitations of his brigade commander-,
a quartette of lieutenants worthy their
captain—the stately Granberry, as great
of heart as of frame, a noble type of the
Texan soldier—Govan, true and brave, as
he was courteous and gentle—Polk, young,
handsome, dashing and fearless—and Lowry
the parson soldier, who preached To his
men in camp and fought them in the fieU
with equal earnestness arid effect. These
brigadiers’ heard the recitations of the
regimental officers, and they in turn of the
company officers. The thorough instruc
tion thus secured, first applied, on the
drill ground, aud then tested in tho field,
gave the troops great efficiency in action.
(to be continued.)