[manc]

BTW your username is my favorite general in the war.

[Stonewall Jackson]

Ranking right up there in my list of favorites is Patrick Cleburne. Known as "the Stonewall of the West", Cleburne fought in most of the major battles of the Western Theater; Shiloh, Richmond (Kentucky), Perryville, Stones River, Chickamauga, Wauhatchie, Missionary Ridge, Ringgold Gap, and Franklin.

At the Battle of Franklin, Cleburne strongly opposed an assault but was ordered to take part in it anyway. Of 20,000 men who charged the field, 6,252 were killed, wounded, or captured. Fourteen generals became casualties (six killed, seven wounded, one captured), as did fifty-five regimental commanders.

Cleburne was among the fallen; killed just inside the Union lines. When his friend and former commander, William Hardee, learned of his death, he said, "Where this division defended, no odds broke its line; where it attacked, no numbers resisted its onslaught, save only once; and there is the grave of Cleburne."