Just before the assault at the Battle of Franklin Brigadier General Daniel C. Govan would recall his interaction with General Patrick Cleburne.
General Cleburne seemed to be more despondent than I ever saw him. I was the last one to receive any instructions from him, and as I saluted and bade him good-bye I remarked, ‘Well General, there will not be many of us that will get back to Arkansas,’ to which he replied, “Well, Govan, if we are to die, let us die like men.”
General Cleburne would fall dead near the Carter family Cotton Gin during the assault.
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