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‘ The Stonewall of the West.”
“The historic name of Claiborne, so
distinguished in the south and south
west by an illustrious l : ne of soldiers
and statesmen, was never more worth
ily represented than by the subject of
this sketch, Patrick Ronayne Cleburne
—an Englishman by descent, an Irish
man by the accident of birth and an
American by adoption. He was born
on St. Patrick’s day, March 17th, 1828,
at Ballincollig in the county of Cork,
of a family that held landed possessions
in Ireland and America from the early
part of the seventeenth century, and
was lineally descended from Thomas,
the last lord of the manor of Cleborne
in the county of Westmoreland, the
eldest brother of William Cleyborne,
(the famous secretary of the “Old
Dominion,” under Charles 1.,) whose
descendants settled in Virginia, Louis
iana, Mississippi and Tennessee, and
became conspicuous in the military
and political history of those states.
Cleburne was designed for the med
ical profession, but the study of physic
proved so uncongenial to his tastes,
that (on the death of his father, an
eminent physician) he abandoned it,
and entered the British army, where
he learned those practical lessons
which served him so well in his
military career.
On leaving the army, he applied
himself to the study of the law, and
at the outbreak of our civil war, was
engaged in a lucrative practice at
Helena, Arkansas. An ardent south
erner, and in his devotion to the
“green isle” more Irish than the Irish
themselves, he offered his services to
his adopted state, and raised the first
regiment in Arkansas. Promotion
quickly followed, and his brilliant
military career under Bragg, Hardee
and Hood, up to the eventful battle of
Franklin, when he lost h's life in one
of the most dashing charges of the war,
is too familiar to require further com
ment.
He was declared by Hardee to be
“the finest soldier of the south,” the
Bayard of the army and “the Stone
wall of the west”! The very soul of
chivalry and honor, brave, manly
and intrepid, he was among the first
io recognize merit in others, and had
a quick sympathy for all that was
noble, courageous and unselfish in his
men. Everywhere his military genius
was acknowledged, his courage and
daring were the admiration of both
armies, while his purity of character,
magnanimity, kindness to the sick
ami generosity to his prisoners en
deared him to the nation. In him,
the south lost one of her greatest
heroes, a true patriot and a devoted
son.
The following deserved tribute was
paid to his memory by one of his
greatest f iends and admirer ', the late
General Robert E. Lee :
“Cleburne on our side inherited the
intrepidity of his race. On a field of
battle he shone like a meteor on a
clouded sky! As a dashing military
leader he was unsurpassed, as a man
he was all virtue, and a single vice
does not stain him as a warrior. His
generosity ind benevolence had no
limits. The care which he took of the
fortunes of his officers and men, from
the greatest to the least, was incessant.
His integrity was proverbial, and his
modesty was an equally conspicuous
trait of his character.
“Meagher,on the Union side,though
not Cleburue’s equal in military genius,
rivaled him in bravery and in the
affection of his soldiers. The gallant
stand which his bold brigade made on
the heights of Fredericksburg is well
known. Never were men more brave!
“Ireland always been prolific in
statesmen, warriors and poets. She
gave to the Confederate cause more
than her share of genius and great
ness. Many of her brave and gener
ous sons fought gallantly for the
south, but the battle was as unsuccess
ful as their own.
“Prominent among these noble
spirits was Cleburne! His courage
belonged to the age of chivalry. No
man ever left a purer fame or a name
more unsullied than did General Cle
burne in all that constitutes high
honor and spotless integrity of charac
ter.”
The severest trials and temptations
never swerved his principles, and well
did he deserve the following beautiful
tribute to his memory, written by
Miss Naomi Hayes, of Columbia,
Tennessee:
Fare thee well, departed chieftain!
Erin’s land sends forth a wail,
And, oh! my country sad laments thee,
Passed so late thro’ death’s dark vale.
Blow, ye breezes, softly o’er him !
Fan his brow with gentle breath,
Disturb ye not the peaceful slumberer—
Cleburne sleeps the sleep of death.
Best thee, Cleburne! tears of sadness
Flow from hearts thou’st nobly won;
Memory ne’er will cease to cherish
Deeds of glory thou hast done.
—Abilene Gazette.
The Confederate Press.
How Southern Papers were Printed in War
Times.
Side by side with the reports of bat
tles and the records of peace commis
sions, congresses and legislatures, the
blurred columns of the Confederate
press were wont to teem with domestic
recipes for cheap dishes, directions for
raising and utilizing various vegetable
products, instructions for making much
of little in matters pertaining to every
phase of household life. Hard by a
list of dead and wounded would stand
a recipe for tanning dog skins for
gloves; while the paragraphs just suc
ceeding the closing column of the de
scription of a naval engagement off
Hampton roads were directions for the
use of boneset as a substitute for qui
nine.
The journals of that day were print
ed usually upon the poorest paper,
made of straw and cotton rags, and so
brittle that the slightest touch muti
lated it. The ink, like the paper, was
of the cheapest and commonest, and
left its impression, not only on the face
of the sheet, but on the hands no less
than on the mind of the reader. Few
fonts of new type found their way into
the Confederacy during the war, and
at the end of four years the facilities
for printing had come to a low ebb.
It was no uncommon thing for pub
lishers to issue half sheets in lieu of a
complete paper, with scarcely an apol
ogy to subscribers for the curtailment
of their literary and news rations.
It was generally understood that this
happened only through stern necessity,
and not from any disposition on the
part of the newspaper men to give less
than an equivalent for the subscription
price.
Sometimes the journal which on yes
terday appeared in all the glory of a
six column page was today cut down to
a four column half sheet, or publication
was suspended with the announcement
that the stock of materials had been ex
hausted, and that as soon as the office
could be replenished publication would
be resumed. Eagerly as the rough
sheets were looked for and closely as
they were read, a diminution of matter
in them, or a failure to appear, caused
only passing comment or dissatisfaction.
Men’s minds were so filled with the
thousand things that each day brought
forth about them, there were so many
THE KENNESAW GAZETTE.
rumors in the air, and news flew so rap
idly even without newspaper aid, as to
cause them not too greatly to miss that
which today has come to be one of the
veriest necessities of American life —a
daily journal full of all the doings of
all the world.
Sometimes even the coarse straw pa
per failed the publishing fraternity
when an edition was absolutely imper
ative, yet in such emergency the inven
tive talent never deserted them. It
was considered a wonders ul journalistic
feat on the part of its publishers for the
Vicksburg Citizen, during the siege of
that city, to make its appearance, when
all other resources had failed, upon
wall paper.
Publishers of books and sheet music
occupied a scarcely less helpless condi
tion than the newspaper people. Their
sole grounds of superiority consisted in
the fact that the demands upon them
were not so urgent. The girl who sang
to her soldier lover the popular songs
of that time, “Lorena,” “When This
Cruel War is Over,” “The Standard
Bearer,” or “Harp of theSouth,” which
were all duly advertised “at the retail
price of $1 per sheet; the trade supplied,
however, at half off, with an additional
discount where 100 of one piece are
ordered,” did not experience that imme
diate and insistent need of the song and
its music which men and women alike
felt for the newspaper that would tell
them where the last batlie had been
fought, which army had been victo
rious, who had been promoted and who
had fallen. The fateful column might
contain evil or good report of some dear
one, and its coming was full of interest
and apprehension. Yet the sheet mu
sic, printed like the newspapers, in the
roughest style, upon the commonest pa
per, with now and then a caricatured
lithographic likeness of some Confed
erate general on the title page, contin
ued to be sold and sung, even though
its price ran from SI to $2 per sheet.
War songs and war music were the
order of the day, and the soldiers in
the camps and the small boys in ragged
jackets shouted with an equal zest:
The despot’s heel is on thy shore!
or
Farewell forever to the star spangled ban
ner!
from diminutive paper covered books
of martial ballads. The little song
books cost anywhere from two and a
half to five Confederate dollars, and
their contents, with a few notable excep
tions, were as mediocre as the paper
on which they were printed. The
sentiment was there, nevertheless, and
this was cared for by the singers more
than the music or the lyrical or lit
erary excellence of the songs.
The missionary and religious publish
ing houses never ceased theit praise
worthy labor of printing tracts and
pamphlets for distribution among the
soldiers, but publications of a more
ambitious or secular standard were
very few, Now and then some advent
urous firm in Rich mom! or Charleston
or New Orleans would issue a badly
printed edition of a new novel, repro
duced from a copy smuggled in
“through the lines” or brought by the
blockade runners from Nassau, still,
even “John Halifax, Gentlemen,”
and “Les Miscrables,” which first
appeared in the south in this way and
this dress, lost much of their attrac
tiveness in their Confederate garb of
inferior ink, bad type and worse p iper.
—A. C. Gordon in The Century.
You can leave Kansas City one
morning and reach Atlanta the even
ing of the next day if your ticket read
over the W. & A.
The W. &A. don’t ask for the
earth, but it gets it ail the game,
Psalm cxix.
This psalm containelh sundry prayers, praises,
and professions of obedience.
SCHIN.
161 Princes have persecuted me without
a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of
thy word.
162 I rejoice at thy word, as one that
findeth great spoil.
163 I hate and abhor lying: but thy law
do I love.
161 Seven times a day do I praise thee
because of thy righteous judgments.
165 Great peace have they which love
thy law: and nothing shall offend them.
166 Lord, I have hoped for thy salva
tion, and done thy commandments.
167 My soul hath kept thy testimonies;
and I love them exceedingly.
168 I have kept thy precepts and thy
testimonies: for all my ways are before
thee.
Interesting Bible Statistics.
The books in the Old Testament, 39.
The chapters in the Old Testament, 929.
Verses in the Old Testament, 23,241.
Letters in the Old Testament, 2,728,100.
The books in the New Testament, 27.
The chapters in the New Testament, 260.
The verses in the New Testament, 7,059.
Words in the New Testament, 181,253.
Letters in the New Testament, 838,380.
The Apocrypha has chapters, 183.
The Apocrypha has verses, 7,081.
The Apocrypha’ has words, 152,185.
The middle chapter and shortest in the
Bible is Psalm cxvii.
The middle verse is the Sth of Psalm
cxviii.
The word “and” occurs in the Old Tes
tament 35,513 times.
The word “Jehovah” occurs 6,865 times.
The word “and” occurs in the New Tes
tament 10,604 times.
The middle book of the Old Testament is
proverbs.
The middle chapter of the Old Testament
is Job 29.
The middle verse of the Old Testament
is 2nd Chronicles, 22d chapter, 17th verse.
The shortest verse of the Old Testament
is Chronicles, Ist chapter, 25th verse.
The longest verse in the Old Testament
is Esther, Bth chapter, 9th verse.
The middle book in the New Testament
is 2nd Thessalonians.
The middle chapters of the New Tes
tament are Romans 13 and 14.
The middle verse of the of the New Tes
tament is Acts, 17th chapter, I’th verse.
The shortest verse in the New Testament
is John, 11th chapter, 35th verse.
Verse 21, of chapter 7, of Ezra, has all
the letters of the alphabet except “j.”
( hapter 19 of 2nd Kings and chapter 37
of Isaiah are alike.
Talk about questions of the day,
there is but one question and that
is t e gospel. It can and will correct
everything needing correction, All
men at the head of great movements
are Christian men. During the many
years I was in the cabinet I was
brought into association with sixty
master-minds, and all but five of them
were Christians. My only hope for
the world is in bringing the human
mind into contact with divine revela
tions. — Gladstone.
The Western & Atlantic Railroad
has three through freight schedules per
day from Atlanta to Chattanooga, and
four t brought freight schedules per
day from Chattanooga to Atlanta.
Each of these trains has close connec
tion at Chattanooga for the northwest,
or with the roads bringing freight
from the northwest.
The Western & Atlantic freight de
pot is within 250 yards of the Union
Depot and Kimball House in Atlanta.
Its sidetracks are immediately behind
the wholesale provision and grocery
houses of Atlanta. Its freight depot
in Chattanooga is at the corner of
Market and Plinth streets, only about
60 yards from the Union Passenger
Depot. Its facilities for the prompt
forwarding and handling of freight,
therefore, are unrivalled by those of
any other road entering Atlanta or
Chattanooga.
The W, & A. is perfectly reliable,