Disunion: The Stonewall of the West
As Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson were winning their smashing victory at the Second Battle of Bull Run in Virginia, another Confederate army triumphed even more decisively at the little known battle of Richmond, Ky., led in part by the man destined to be known as the “Stonewall of the West”: Gen. Patrick Cleburne.
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