Major General Patrick R. Cleburne's Last Days in Life and Death: Contemporary Accounts of Cleburne and his Division (The 1864 Tennessee Campaign) by Jamie Gillum

Patrick Cleburne was nearly legendary in life and unquestionably in death. Who was Patrick Cleburne and what was he like? These are questions that only those closest to him could answer. This compilation of 'takes' on Cleburne by those who knew him well help to provide an answer. Irving Buck, L. H. Mangum, Arthur Fremantle and others provide a lens through which we gain a more intimate knowledge of who this enigmatic leader was. A brief contemporary biography of the general is followed by accounts of the final days of his life, the circumstances of his death, and the process of recovering his body and interring it.