(NYTimes) As Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson were winning their smashing victory at the Second Battle of Bull Run in Virginia, another Confederate army triumphed even more decisively at the little known battle of Richmond, Ky., led in part by the man destined to be known as the “Stonewall of the West”: Gen. Patrick Cleburne. Richmond was potentially even more decisive than Bull Run — it opened Kentucky to Confederate invasion, giving the rebels a possible route to the aorta of the Union war effort, the Ohio River.
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