Cleburne: The Graphic Novel

Coming to bookstores everywhere in November 2008. Cleburne: A Graphic Novel is the TRUE STORY of Confederate General Patrick Cleburne and his plan to enlist slaves to fight for the South in exchange for their freedom. Available at www.rampartpress.com

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[AUG351]

I bought this of Amazon a day ago and its an amazing graphic novel of the last year of Cleburnes life and is probably the best graphic novel I have ever read. It does a good job portraying what Cleburne and his men fought for and wen through and has no biased view on the South and shows that many as Cleburne weren't fightin for slavery, they fought for their homes and the people they loved. It shows Cleburnes dream to recruit slaves into service to guarantee their freedom. Highly recomended.

[ewancummins]

@Speegs23 The Army freed slaves as it advanced into Confederate territory, and many runaways ended up working in Army camps (some not so willingly, others under better conditions). I don't see how you think Lincoln cared nothing for blacks.'Nothing' is a bit of a stretch. He was an anti-slavery man, but he was not a radical Abolitionist. He actually favored colonization of blacks, for a long time. His primary concern during the war, as he always said, was to preserve the Union.

[Speegs23]

@ewancummins Lincoln's "Emancipation" freed no one, it was rhetoric aimed at the South, a region that had already seceded, in a propaganda ploy to get slaves to rebel. It didn't work. Lincoln cared nothing for African descendants, free or or enslaved, he cared about the economics of losing Southern plantation crops, there were more millionaires in Mississippi in 1860 than in any other place on earth, digest that for a second.

[Speegs23]

@bigreed67 yes but the first free black units were actually in louisiana, free blacks also were slave owners in many instances, despite that politically incorrect footnote of history.

ultimately the war had nothing to do with the ethics of slavery, only the economics of it, the war was one about economy as the South provide 80 percent of the earth's most precious cash crop, cotton, and Northern industry and textile turned huge profit off of it, losing it would've been devastating. Money war.

[sketchyfolk]

I grew up in cleburne...there is now a road there with my last name...gardega road

[bigreed67]

@seeingthesigns Actually the Union Army used black troops in combat on a regular basis in 1864. Black troops fought at Ft. Pillow, Brice's Cross Roads, Tupelo, Nashville, Port Hudson, Miliken's Bend, and Petersburg.

[progresso11]

cleburne is small as hell

[darthroden]

@gsxraddict Really?! Oh man that would be great! Just the part with the Battle of Franklin and the piano scene in the graphic novel would be enough to make the whole thing!

[gsxraddict]

@darthroden cleburne the movie

they are doing it supposedly

[darthroden]

I have this graphic novel and it is excellent! I believe that it would make a great movie, if only Hollywood would have the courage to pick up on it.