A Southern Saint Patrick's Day Remembrance
You don’t have to be Irish to wear the green on Saint Patrick’s Day! He was nicknamed “Stonewall Jackson of the West” during America’s War Between the States. Monday March 17, 2014 is Saint Patrick’s Day and it’s also the 186th birthday of one of Ireland’s sons Patrick Ronayne Cleburne. A statue of Cleburne was unveiled in the year of our Lord 2009 at Confederate Park in Ringgold, Georgia and a life-size bronze statue of General Patrick R. Cleburne was unveiled in 2012 at the Helena Museum of Phillips County, Arkansas. The Patrick R. Cleburne Confederate cemetery in Jonesboro, Georgia is also named for him.- Saturday, March 15, 2014