Birth of Major General Patrick Cleburne, Cork 1828

#OnThisDay 1828 Patrick Cleburne was born in Cork. He joined the British Army for some years but left for America. He started the Civil War as a Private but within two years rose to become a Major General & the highest ranking Irishman in the Confederacy.

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