The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-03-15
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ing ivy, while the flowers and shrub
berry look fresh and green even o
this bleak November day. As Cls
burne, with his staff, rode by. th
general refined up his horse and liz
| gered for a moment to admire spo
of such singular beauty. To hin
however, it was the beauty of SAD
ness. The flowers that hloome
there seemed ready to fade AM
| wither on the breast of death. TIL
evergreen was waiting to lay upol
his coffin lid, and frost glittered o.
the fairest rose like jeweled mock
cry, Cleburne had q presentimen
of the nearness of death. Turnin,
to one OF his staff officers, he sait
with a sigh: "If / fall in the com
ing fight, bury me here at Ash
wood" Two days after his man
gled form was placed, beneath tn
sod at Ashwood. The services o
the Episcopal church was said b,
Bishop QuinLard, and then the sol
der slept in the grave he hac
chosen,
Some years after the war;
before Cleburne's remains were re-
moved to Helena, Ark, and a mon.
ument placed over them by the La.
dies Confederate Memorial Asso-
ciation-tho writer was riding one
day along the Ashwood road and
paused for q moment to pay re-
spect to Cleburne's memory. a
rude ad-board of cedar with Gle
burne's name in Black letters, near
ly obliterated by the weather, stood
over little round mound, the rank
grass and weeds had nearly COW
cred it. Tearing away the weeds 1
wrote from memory on the board
one stanzs Of a little poem that
first appeared in a Dublin paper
Dedicated to the memory of Pat
rick Cleburue." It was thus:
Ye brave, en- mAs.e, who fall and pass
To the leaden halls Of death:
There are palms tor the few, but alasi for
Not : leaf from the victor wreath.
He was the fsetive tonst, the soldiers boast,
The type Of = martial age:
The foe of wrong. the soul Of song,
And the light Of the future page.
In appearance Cleburne did not
bear out his reputation-was weak
and rather wan, q slight man, with
iron gray hair cut close to his head,
delicate mustache and imperial,
small gray eyes and sallow com
plexion. He dressed always neatly,
but with plainness, and had little
taste for general society. His
were few; his tastes were
simple; his manners shrinking in
the extreme. He had a Flooding
q high sense of the mer-
its of others, an obstinate though
undemonstrative temper. and shy
but loving heart. To those whom
he liked he was tenderly affection
ate. To his antipathies he was 81
lent and austers. His fancies were
mainly prosaic; his turn OF thought
literary. But in his own
ever unobstrusive way, he was tena
cious of his principles and his pur-
poses, incorrigible in the execution
of his plans, and tastidiously true
to his duties, personal and official.
He had Travelled extensively. In
early life he had served as a cornet
of the British light Dragons in In
dia, and later passed three years in
Paris as q student of bellies lettres.
He might have been mistaken for q
seaman, and looked like Greek.
His bearing was cosmopohtanI his
speech peculiar himself, q CROSS be-
tween q stammer and an accent.
He was reckless of his person, but
not from vainglory. He seemed to
be unconscious either of exposure
or display, governed by the impulse
or desire of the moment. His men
loved him dearly; but few Of his Of
ficers were familiar with him.
Hardee was his nearest friend,
though he dearly loved young Lu-
cius Polk.
Cleburne was very bold and. orig
inal in his opinions. His PROPOSE
ton, two years before the close of
the war, to declare all the negroes
free and conscript the males, evin-
ces his force of intellect and ssgac-
ity. 81 would meet the proclama-
ton of Mr.. Lincoln" said he, "with
a better ono. / would give the ne
groes not only their freedom, but
bounty of land of land for merito-
rious service. On one occasion he
was heard to declare: eff England
and France permit the overthrow of
the confederscy, / shall be in favor
Of restoring the union and cleaning
out Canada and Mexico. Had he
lived he would have returned to Ar
kansas, married the lady to whom
he was betrothed, resumed the
practice of law and eschewed Feni-
anism. II am sick Of fighting"
he was heard to say months before
his death, shut we must fight it TO
the end"