Short answers, pulled from the story.
Patrick Ronayne Cleburne was an Irish-born Confederate major general who commanded infantry in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. He earned the nickname "Stonewall of the West" for his ability to hold defensive positions and foil Union advances; Robert E. Lee described him as "a meteor shining from a clouded sky."
Cleburne was born in Ovens, County Cork, Ireland, on the 16th of March 1828. After failing his entrance exam to Trinity College of Medicine in Dublin and serving in the British Army's 41st Regiment of Foot, he emigrated to Helena, Arkansas, where he became a pharmacist and later a lawyer. When the Civil War began, he sided with the Confederate States out of loyalty to the Southern people who had adopted him.
In 1864, Cleburne proposed that the Confederacy emancipate all enslaved people and enlist them in the Confederate Army to offset a shortage of men and resources. The proposal was met with silence and then attacked as an abolitionist conspiracy by General William H. T. Walker, and it effectively ended Cleburne's prospects for promotion to corps command.
Cleburne was killed on the 30th of November 1864 at the Battle of Franklin, just south of Nashville, Tennessee, in an assault he had opposed. After his horse was shot from under him, he advanced on foot with his sword raised toward the Union line. His body was found just inside the Union line; Confederate war records indicate he died of either a bullet to the abdomen or a wound through the heart.
Cleburne is buried in the Confederate section of Maple Hill Cemetery in Helena, Arkansas, overlooking the Mississippi River. His remains were moved there in 1870 with considerable fanfare after resting first at Rose Hill Cemetery in Columbia, Tennessee, and then for six years at St. John's Episcopal Church near Mount Pleasant, Tennessee.
Cleburne County exists in both Alabama and Arkansas. The city of Cleburne, Texas, carries his name and features a statue of him. The site where he fell in Franklin, Tennessee, is preserved as Cleburne Park. The Patrick R. Cleburne Confederate Cemetery in Jonesboro, Georgia, was also named in his honor.