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Photostatic copy of letter from Patrick Ronayne Cleburne, dated Battle House, Mobile, Ala., Mar. 11, 1864, and Dalton, Ga., Mar. 19, 1864, addressed to Miss Sallie Lightfoot, regarding his engagement to Miss Sue Tarlton. 4 pages.

Scope and Content Note The material consists of personal correspondence between Patrick Cleburne and family members, Civil War correspondence, and pages from the Cleburne family Bible listing marriages, births, and deaths, 1823-1842. At least five of the letters have been published in Howell and Elizabeth Purdue, Pat Cleburne: Confederate General (Hillsboro, TX; Hill Jr. College Press, 1973; and second edition revised, Tuscaloosa, AL: Portals Press, 1977). Positive photocopies are provided of all the...

Scope and Content Note Correspondence, familial, legal, and military records; biographical sketches; literary manuscripts; diary excerpts; notes; maps; and other published and unpublished material, principally in photocopy or transcript, received or collected by historian Richard Howell Purdue and his wife and co-author, Elizabeth Scales Purdue, in course of research for their Pat Cleburne, Confederate General: A Definitive Biography (Hillsboro, Tex., Hill Jr. College Press,...