{"product_id":"2940158681073","title":"A Comet Over Dixie","description":"In these most confusing and often contentious of times, folks of the vast expanse of the American South are rapidly seeing old heroes and legends slip from their grasps and fade into obscurity with every passing year.  The Likes of Robert E. Lee and Thomas \"Stonewall\" Jackson - while still commanding the pages of history books - have lost a bit of their lustre as society evolves and tastes change.  And they are the lucky ones:  with every monument removed, with every statue pulled down, lesser names are succumbing to the judgment of society and to their own particular warts and blemishes.\u003cbr\u003e    In this novel I hope to introduce a man - one of the Confederacy's finest generals - to those still seeking a real hero whose flaws were few and whose achievements in battle were deserving of their pride.  Patrick Ronayne Cleburne was a good and decent man who fled his native Ireland for a more promising future in the antebellum United States; when war came, he sided with his beloved adopted state of Arkansas and rose to command an army.  From Shiloh to Chickamauga, from his humble stint with the Yell County Rifles to the last brutal fiasco at Franklin, Tennessee, Cleburne proved himself a figure of courage and kindness to his men who loved him so.\u003cbr\u003e    His story is told herein in the folksy home-spun words of friend and fellow soldier Noribert \"Nob\" Taylor, and it is my hope that they bring to life the soul of this fine brave soldier and raise him to the level of honor and respect he has so deserved for this past century and a half.  For Pat Cleburne was not just an icon of the South, but of all America and the world beyond!","brand":"Christopher Kennelley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47075739894000,"sku":"2940158681073","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940158681073_p0.jpg?v=1764117015","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940158681073","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}