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Cleburne County named for Irish man who became Confederate general
Friday, December 26, 2014 11:59
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Via Billy
“Well, Govan, if we must die, let us die like men.”
Gen. Patrick R. Cleburne
On Dec. 6, 1866, a new county was carved out of Alabama’s Calhoun, Randolph and Talladega counties and named Cleburne County in honor of a Civil War hero.
“The story of his life should be a movie,” said Janet Baber, the artist who painted Confederate Army Maj. Gen. Patrick R. Cleburne’s portrait, which hangs in the Cleburne County Courthouse. “He was such a role model.”
Cleburne was an Irish immigrant who fought for his adopted country — the Confederacy — in the Civil War. He was so well-loved by his men, they requested their home states honor him. Although he settled in Arkansas, Cleburne commanded three Alabama regiments, the 16th, 33rd and 45th. He was engaged to Mobile resident Susan Tarleton when he died in battle. Alabamians who knew of him through those connections were instrumental in getting the county named after him, said Baber, whose ancestors were among them.
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