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Vol. 11.
For the Kennesaw Gazette.
Pat Cleburne in the Way.
Faix! comrades, halt, and hug the grounl,
Bedad, the divil’s to pay !
The woods samed clear; but sure we’ve
found
Pat Cleburne in the way.
’“An ugly foight?” that’s truth ye spake,
Thim words a saint moight say ;
Begorra ! how with fear ye quake
Pat Cleburne’s in the wav.
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.At Mission Ridge he bate us back,
Tho’ else we won the fray,
At Ringgold, too, we found, alack !
.Pat Cleburne in the wav.
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’Now at New Hope —no hope at all
I see for us to-day;
.No man can scale a burning wall —
Pat Cleburne’s in the way.
He’s Erin’s pride —I’ll mash your hands
If on him slurs ye’d lay,
Tho’ ’gainst me too with death’s bolt stands
Pat Cleburne in the way.
*‘Asowljer grand?” he’s more, ye’ll grant,
A jintleman, tho’ in gray,
His praise we spake, tho’ we don’t want
Pat Cleburne in the way.
And whin fame’s tower the good and great
Would cloimb to wear the bay,
There too, they’ll foind on the top sate,
Pat Cleburne in the way.
Jos. M. Brown.
We give, on this page, what is stated
by one of his staff to be the best like
ness of Gen. Cleburne, ever published.
It is from a photograph taken about
six months before he was killed, and
is said to be a very true one.
It was prepared expressly for the
Western & Atlantic Railroad company.
The Western & Atlantic Railroad
has at Chattanooga, Atlanta and in
termediate points 66 connections
with its passenger trains. These in
clude connections which arriving trains
make with its departing' trains, and
which its arriving trains make with
trains departing over other roads at
various points of junction. We ven
ture the remark that there is not an
other road, even three times as long as
the Western & Atlantic, whose pas
senger trains have as many connec
tions as tho*se of the Western & At
lantic.
The W. &.A. is the old reliable.
A. humorous dare-devil—tlie very man to suit my purpose. Bulwer.
THE “FAT OLEBTJRWE” NUMBER.
PATRICK RONAYNE CLEBURNE.
The Confederate Stonewall of the West
a Scion of English Nobility, With
Kingly Blood in His Veins —
The Irish Hero of the
Southern Army.
BY I. W. AVERY,
Colonel Fourth Georgia Cavalry.
It has been a universal popular de
lusion that Pat Cleburne, as he is call
ed, whom General Hardee termed
“the best Major-General in the south
ern army,” and who well deserved the
title <>f the “Stonewall Jackson” of the
Western Confederacy, was a person of
obscure and humble origin. The in
teresti >g facts given now for the first
time of the family and early life of this
magnificent soldier show that he was
descend <1 from two of the most ancient
and hon >rable families in the United
Kingdom of Great Britain, and that
he was related to some of the most il
lustrious names of our American his
tory. His superb genius for war was
the hereditary transmission from a no
ble and ancient lineage. For these
valuable details following we are very
largely due to Mr. C. J. Hubbard, of
Portsmouth, N. H.
THE DESCENDANT OF A SAXON KING.
The family of Cleburne, or, accord
ing to the earliest orthography in
Domesday, Cliboru, derives its name
ATLANTA, CA., MAY 15, 1887.
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GENERAL P. R. CLEBURNE.
from an ancient manor in West more"
land. This was early divided into the
moietiesof Cleburn —Tallbois, and Cle
burn, and Hervey, the former held by
a branch of the Barons of Kendal, the
latter by a scion of the Norman house
of Bardolf, brother-in-law of Alan,
Earl of Richmond, A. D. 1076. Ac
cording to the custom of the period the
name of the manor became the sur
name of Hervey’s descendants as early
as the time of Henrv HI, and in 1236
we find Robert de Cleburne Lord of
the Manor and a Knight of the Shire
of Westmoreland. In the seventeenth
century, soon after the marriage of
Thomas, the last Lord of Cleburn, to
the daughter of Sir Richard Lowther,
of Lowther, ancestor of the Earls of
Lonsdale, the family settledin Ireland
and America.
William, brother of the above Thom
as de Clcborne, became the famous
secretary <<f the colony of Virginia,
and her champion against Calvert,
Lord Baltimore, A. D. 1621-76.
William, second son of the aforesaid
Thomas, settled in Kilkenny and the
county of Wexford, where he held the
manor of St. Johns; while a third
branch, John Cliborn, the Quaker
Parliamentarian, purchased “Moate
Castle” of Troy, and in 1670 settled in
the county of Westmeath. From
Richard Cleburne, of Ballycolltrau
Castle, who held numerous estates in
Wexford and Tipperary, son of Wil
liam Cleburne, of St. Johns, and grand-
son of I'homas, the hist Lord of Cle
burne, lineally descends General Pat
rick Ronayne Cleburne, the subject of
this sketch
On the maternal side this family in
herit the blood of the “good Bai o s of
Wigton, ” and through Eleanor Lan
caster of Bartow, wife of Richard de
Cleborne, that of the Tail!) ois, Barons
of Kendal, whose intermarriage with
Elgiya, daughter of Ethelred, the Sax
on King, carries this pedigree on the
female side to the fifth century. The
Ronaynes settled in Ireland in the be
ginning of the twelfth century. Mau
rice Ronan, or Ronayne, the ancestor
or the Ronaynes d’Laughtane, Dough
doyne and Annebrook, obtained from
Edward IV a “grant of the rights of
Englishmen,” the original of which is
still preserved in the family. From
this genial race of fox-hunting country
Squires, Cleburne derived a dash of
wit and humor, and that impulsive
valor which made him the idol of his
troops. Habitually grave and thought
fid, naturally proud, cold, reserved,
and even haughty in manner, he was
full of generous sympathy, had a kind
heart, and possessed to perfection that
high courage and nobility of character
which were the sterling qualities of the
knightly race from which he sprung.
Cleburne’s American kinsmen.
The descendants of William Cle
borne, or Claborne (e in the north of
England has the sound of al,) are nu
merous in the south and southwest
portions of the United States. Among
the most eminent may be mentioned
Colonel Thomas Claiborne, member of
Congress, of Brunswick, Virginia; his
son, Dr. John Claiborne, who succeed
ed him in Congress; the Hon. Wm.
C. C. Claiborne, Governor of Louis
iana in 1814; General Ferdinand
Leigh (’laiborne, who figured in the
Creek war; Hon. Richard Claiborne,
of Nashville, Tennessee, and the Hon.
Nathaniel 11. Claiborne, of Claybrook,
Virginia, who died in 1659. The Hon.
J. F. H. Claiborne, of Natchez, Mis
sissippi ; Colonel Nathaniel C. Clai
borne, of St. Louis, Missouri, and Wm.
Charles Cole Claiborne, a distinguished
citizen of New Orleans, are still living.
Many members of this family are
prominent as lawyers and physicians
in Virginia, Louisiana, Mississippi and
Tennessee, and are connected by mar
riage with the Band ridges, Leighs,
Carters, Lewis, Goochs, Waughs, Har
risons and others of Virginia I the
Mangums of North Carolina; Clays
of Alabama; Latrobes of Maryland ;
Kershaws of South Carolina, and oth
er distinguished families of the South.
NO. 10.