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F — w " 1, " ,, ,l ”' lTTTnw ™ "WS|~ if— ’ - ~ ' MBsAtfHZBJ U "“3 ( ■& S& .••7'o '"^ > *SJA3 ‘‘"" j Vltw or KEHHESAV AWVNTAiK-sxg, X A V "■ - - (g)*’ALLETs H-'fy 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. w .At Mission Ridge he bate us back, Tho’ else we won the fray, At Ringgold, too, we found, alack ! .Pat Cleburne in the wav. •/ ’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. w I.V-- 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.
