On Sunday, January 12th at 3 P.M., the Franklin Civil War Round Table will host historian and author Robert Jenkins, who will present a program on General Patrick Cleburne.

Patrick Cleburne is a multi-faceted figure in Civil War history. Irish-born Cleburne served in the British Army before coming to Helena, Arkansas to make a new life. He joined the Confederate Army, fighting for his new homeland. Rising up through the officer ranks, in 1864 he called for the arming of black slaves to fight for the Army of Tennessee. Cleburne went into the charge and was killed in the Battle of Franklin.

Jenkins is a Chamblee, Georgia native, now practicing law in Dalton, Georgia. He has been a student of the Civil War since childhood. He is a graduate of Georgia Southern and received his law degree from Mercer University.

Jenkins released The Battle of Peachtree Creek: Hood’s First Sortie in 2014 and followed up with To the Gates of Atlanta: From Kennesaw Mountain to Peach Tree Creek in 2015.

The event is free to the public. The Franklin Civil War Round Table is an educational program of Franklin’s Charge, and meets each month at Carnton Plantation's Fleming Center, 1345 Eastern Flank Circle. For more information, email fcwrt@yahoo.com, or visit http://www.franklinscharge.org/round-table.